ANKARA
Turkey plans to build a pipeline with greater or equal capacity to the Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline, which transfers about 70 million tons of oil to the international market, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said on Wednesday.
Yildiz stressed Turkey's partnerships with Iraq and Azerbaijan and the expansion of its energy capacities during his statement on the NTV channel's live broadcast while in Paris to attend the International Energy Agency Ministerial meeting.
Turkey is a reliable market and safe transportation line for oil from both Iraq and production centers in the Middle East, he added.
Regarding shale gas, Yildiz said that if the gas produced in the US and Canada were to be put on sale on the world market, the cost of shale gas would descrease significantly.
"But it is not being distributed. Therefore we must place more importance on our own renewable natural resources for our industrialists and our citizens," he explained.
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