Turkey

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Last Updated: July 7, 2015 (Notes)

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Overview
Turkey is an increasingly important transit hub for oil and natural gas supplies as they move from Central Asia, Russia,
and the Middle East to Europe and other Atlantic markets.
Turkey is well placed to serve as a hub for oil and natural gas supply headed to Europe and
other Atlantic markets from Russia, the Caspian region, and the Middle East (Figure 1).
Turkey has been a major transit point for oil and is becoming more important as a transit
point for natural gas. Growing volumes of Caspian oil are being sent to Black Sea ports such
as Novorossisyk, Russia and Supsa, Georgia and then to Western markets by tanker via the
Turkish Straits (Bosporus and Dardanelles waterways). Caspian oil and oil from northern Iraq
also cross Turkey by pipeline, through the Ceyhan oil terminal on Turkey's Mediterranean
coast.
Turkey is primed to become a significant natural gas pipeline hub. However, currently most
of its natural gas pipeline connections only bring natural gas into the country, as growing
demands have left little natural gas for export. Since 2010, Turkey has experienced some of
the fastest growth in total energy demand among countries in the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). Unlike several other OECD countries in Europe,
Turkey's economy has avoided the prolonged stagnation that has characterized much of the
continent for the past several years.

Figure 1. Turkey's major oil and natural gas transit

pipelines

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration and IHS EDIN

Petroleum & other liquids

Over the past decade, Turkey's economy has expanded, and its petroleum and other liquids consumption has increased.
With limited domestic reserves, Turkey imports nearly all of its oil supplies.
As of January 1, 2015, the Oil & Gas Journal (OGJ) estimated Turkey's proved oil reserves
at 296 million barrels,1 located mostly in the southeast region of the country. Turkey's
petroleum and other liquids production peaked in 1991 at 85,000 barrels per day (b/d), but
then production declined each year and bottomed out in 2004 at 43,000 b/d. Although

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Turkey's production of liquid fuels has increased since 2004, it is much less than what the
country consumes each year (Figure 2).

Sector organization
Trkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortakl (TPAO) is the dominant exploration and production entity
in Turkey. As a state-owned firm, TPAO has preferential rights in petroleum exploration and
production, and any foreign involvement in upstream activities is limited to joint ventures with
TPAO. In 2013, TPAO produced 34,000 b/d of crude oil accounting for 73% of the total crude
oil production in Turkey.2

Exploration and production

Most of Turkey's 296 million barrels of proved oil reserves are located in the Batman and
Adiyaman Provinces in the southeast (where most of Turkey's oil production occurs), with
additional deposits found in Thrace in the northwest. In 2014, Turkey produced an estimated
61,000 b/d of petroleum and other liquids, accounting for about 9% of Turkey's oil
consumption.
Offshore and shale reserves may become a future source of Turkey's oil supply. There may
be significant reserves under the Aegean Sea, although this has not been confirmed
because of ongoing territorial disputes with Greece. The Black Sea may also hold significant
oil production potential for Turkey. After collecting and evaluating seismic data, Shell and
TPAO began exploratory drilling in the Black Sea in January 2015. Shell and TPAO are also
cooperating on a joint venture which has drilled two wells in the Dadas shale in the southeast
of Turkey in Diyabakir Province.3

Consumption and imports

In 2014, Turkey's total liquid fuels consumption averaged 712,000 b/d.4 More than 90% of
total liquid fuels came from imports. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA),
Turkey's crude oil imports are expected to double over the next decade. In 2014, most of
Turkey's crude oil imports came from Iraq and Iran (Figure 3),5 with each supplying slightly
more than a quarter of the country's crude oil. The share of crude oil from Russia, once the
largest source country of Turkey's crude oil, has fallen as Russian crude oil is increasingly
being directed toward Asian markets.

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International oil transit

Turkey plays an increasingly important role in the transit of oil. It is strategically located at the crossroads between the oil-rich former
Soviet Union and Middle East countries, and the European demand centers. It is home to one of the world's busiest chokepoints, the
Turkish Straits, through which almost 3 million b/d flowed in 2013.
Turkish Straits
The Turkish Straits, which includes the Bosporus waterway and the Dardanelles waterway, is
one of the busiest maritime chokepoints in the world. Significant volumes of Russian and
Caspian oil move by tanker via the Turkish Straits to Western markets. An estimated 2.9
million b/d of petroleum liquids flowed through the Turkish Straits in 2013. About 70% of this
volume was crude oil, and the remainder was petroleum products.6

Pipelines
Turkey currently has two crude oil import pipelines (Table 1),7 the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)
pipeline from Azerbaijan and a pipeline from northern Iraq to Ceyhan, Turkey. The Iraq
pipeline has two branches. The original line of the Iraq pipeline stretches from the IraqTurkey border to Kirkuk, Iraq. However, little oil has flowed on this part of the pipeline since
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began seizing territory in the area in early 2014 and
the pipeline was sabotaged. The BTC pipeline has also been targeted in the past. In August
2008, an explosion in eastern Turkey shutdown the BTC pipeline for more than two weeks.
The explosion was reportedly either coordinated with a cyber attack on the pipeline's
computer systems or was caused by the cyber attack.8
In 2013, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) completed construction of a second line of
the Iraq pipeline, beginning at Taq Taq field near Erbil in the KRG controlled portion of
northern Iraq, which joins the existing pipeline to Ceyhan, Turkey near the Iraq-Turkey
border. Initial flows on the KRG line were low, as the Iraqi central government objected to the
KRG selling oil without central government approval or involvement. The two sides reached
an agreement, and in January 2015, the KRG began exporting its volumes as well as the
central government controlled oil that was produced in northern Iraq. The agreement calls for
exports of 250,000 b/d of crude from KRG controlled territory and 300,000 b/d from central
government controlled fields around Kirkuk, Iraq, all of which is to be marketed by Iraq's
State Oil Marketing Organisation.9 Actual oil exports have varied from month-to-month, but in
May 2015, exports to Ceyhan, Turkey via the KRG line exceeded 550,000 b/d, including
about 400,000 b/d of crude from KRG controlled fields.10

Table 1. Turkey's major crude and condensate pipelines

Facility
Baku-TbilisiCeyhan
Kirkuk-Ceyhan

Status
operating
operating

Capacity
(million b/d)
1.2
1.5

Total length Supply

(miles) regions
1,100

Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan
620 northern Iraq

Destination
Ceyhan oil port

Details
started operations
in 2006

Ceyhan oil port

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration based on BP, OilPrice.com, The National (UAE), The Washington Post, Genel Energy, Eni, and United Press
International.

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Facility

Status

Capacity
(million b/d)

Kurdish Regional
Government
(KRG) Pipeline

operating

0.6

Samsun-Ceyhan

canceled

up to 1.5

Total length Supply

(miles) regions

250 northern Iraq

340 Russia and Central

Asia

Destination

Ceyhan oil port via

connection to the
Kirkuk-Ceyhan
pipeline
Ceyhan oil port

Details
started operations in
1976; annual
throughput is much
lower than the
design capacity, as
the pipeline is
frequently
sabotaged
completed in 2013

would allow oil to

bypass the
congested Bosporus
straits; project was
canceled in 2013 as
it was deemed
uneconomic

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration based on BP, OilPrice.com, The National (UAE), The Washington Post, Genel Energy, Eni, and United Press
International.

Ports
The port of Ceyhan has become an important outlet for both Caspian oil exports as well as
oil shipments from northern Iraq. In addition to the two crude oil pipelines that terminate in
Ceyhan, Turkey (BTC and Iraq-Turkey), crude and condensate are also trucked in from
northern Iraq. In 2014, the port of Ceyhan handled more than 650,000 b/d of Caspian crude
oil exports and more than 130,000 b/d of Iraqi crude oil exports, most of which were destined
for Europe.11

Refinery sector
As of January 1, 2015, Turkey had six refineries with a combined processing capacity of
663,000 b/d, according to OGJ.12 Tpra is Turkey's dominant refining firm and operates four
refineries accounting for 85% of the total refining capacity. Tpra also owns about 59% of
the total petroleum products storage capacity in Turkey.13 Tpra was formerly state-owned,
but has been 51% owned by the Koc-Shell Joint Venture Group since 2005, with 49% of
shares publicly traded.

Natural gas
Turkey has a strategic role in natural gas transit because of its position between the world's second-largest natural gas
market, continental Europe, and the substantial natural gas reserves of the Caspian Basin and the Middle East.
As of January 1, 2015, the OGJ estimates Turkish natural gas reserves at 218 billion cubic
feet (Bcf).14 Turkey produces only a small amount of natural gas, with the total production
amounting to 19 Bcf in 2013 (Figure 4). With 11 Bcf in 2013, TPAO accounted for most of
Turkey's natural gas production.15
Turkey is an important consumer of natural gas and is becoming an important transit state for
natural gas. Turkey is one of the few countries in Europe where natural gas consumption
continues to show strong growth. Turkey's growing consumption has helped spur
development of multiple pipelines to bring natural gas into the country, and while it has left
little natural gas available for export, new supplies have been contracted and new pipelines
are under construction that will increase both Turkey's imports and exports of natural gas.

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Sector organization
The state-owned Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTA) dominates the natural gas sector,
although most of the market is open to competition. BOTA is vertically integrated across
much of the natural gas sector. BOTA accounts for about 80% of natural gas imports; it
builds and operates natural gas pipelines in Turkey; it accounts for most of the wholesale
market; and it accounts for most exports of natural gas.
Turkey began liberalizing its natural gas market in 2001 with the Natural Gas Market Law,
which required that BOTA be legally unbundledbroken up into separate legal entities for
natural gas transport, operating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and storage facilities,
and trading and marketing. Several draft and enacted laws since 2001 have also required
BOTA to be unbundled, including most recently, a draft bill submitted to parliament in 2014.
Timelines for completing the unbundling have not been binding and have repeatedly been
extended.
Another goal of market liberalization has been to reduce the dominance of BOTA in the
market segments in which it operates to foster competitive markets. BOTA is required to
reduce its share of imports to no more than 20% of annual consumption by gradually selling
off its import contracts.16 There has been progress in BOTA selling off its import contracts:
BOTA has transferred 350 Bcf of import contracts, equal to about 20% of Turkish natural
gas consumption, to seven private companies.17 Russia's state-owned natural gas company,
Gazprom, has a 71% stake in Bosphorus Gaz (which holds import contracts for 26 Bcf per
year and 62 Bcf per year; about 5% of Turkish consumption), and Gazprom has filed an
application with Turkey's antimonopoly regulator to buy a controlling interest in Akfel Gaz
(contracts for 79 Bcf; about 4.5% of Turkish gas consumption).18

Consumption, imports, and exports

Turkey is increasingly dependent on natural gas imports as its domestic consumption, especially in the electric power sector, continues to
experience significant growth.
Natural gas consumption in Turkey has increased rapidly over the past decade and reached
a new high of 1.7 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in 2014. Natural gas is mainly used in power
generation, which accounted for more than 40% of consumption in 2012. Most of the
remaining consumption is nearly evenly split between the buildings sector (residential and
commercial) and the industrial sector. Consumption growth is expected to remain strong as
industrial sector growth and rising electricity consumption continue to spur demand.
In 2014, Turkey imported 1.7 Tcf of natural gas, accounting for 99% of total natural gas
supply.19 Through LNG and multiple pipeline connections, Turkey has a reasonably
diversified supply mix. However, Russia's Gazprom is by far the largest single supplier,
accounting for 57% of Turkey's total natural gas supply in 2013 (Figure 5).20 Turkey is
Russia's second-largest export market for natural gas, after Germany. In 2013, BOTA
exported just 23 Bcf of natural gas.21
Because of rapid demand growth, Turkey's annual natural gas consumption is approaching
the annual capacity limits of the country's import infrastructure (pipeline and LNG). However,
Turkey's natural gas demand is not flat over the course of the year, but peaks in the winter
months, when natural gas use for power generation and space heating is highest.

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Additionally, Turkey has little natural gas storage capacity and primarily relies on increased
imports to meet the seasonal increase in demand. Natural gas shortages are not uncommon
in winter, as the pipeline capacity is insufficient to meet peak winter demands.
Natural gas consumption in Turkey and exports from Turkey are also highly vulnerable to
supply disruptions. Natural gas imports to Turkey have frequently been reduced or
temporarily suspended because of insurgent attacks on import pipelines or because of cold
weather in countries that export to Turkey. These disruptions can be mitigated by other
suppliers if there is spare pipeline capacity. Russia, in particular, has on multiple occasions
sent extra natural gas to Turkey when needed.

Storage
Companies importing natural gas into Turkey are required to hold rights to storage capacity
equal to 10% of their annual imports. However, Turkey currently has one operating
underground storage facility (Table 2)22 with total storage capacity of about 5% of Turkey's
imports of natural gas. For comparison, the 28 countries of the European Union (EU)
collectively have storage capacity equal to a little less than 20% of total annual
consumption.23 If all the storage capacity currently proposed in Turkey is realized, capacity
will amount to about 20% of annual imports for domestic consumption.

Table 2. Turkey's natural gas storage facilities

Facility
Kuzey
Marmara
Marmara
Eregesli
LNG
Aliaga LNG
Tuz Golu
Tarsus
province

Status
operating

Operator
TPAO

operating

BOTA

operating
planned
planned

EgeGaz
BOTA
Bendis
Energy

Working
gas
capacity
(Bcf)

Details

90

facility consists of two

depleted gas fields; plans to
expand capacity to 150 Bcf
6 LNG terminal storage

6 LNG terminal storage

35 salt dome storage
180

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration based on Platt's and International

Energy Agency

Pipelines

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At the end of 2013, BOTA had more than 7,600 miles of natural gas pipelines in Turkey,
including interconnections to four international import pipelines and one international export
pipeline (Table 3).24 With several pipelines under construction or scheduled to begin
construction in 2015 and 2016, Turkey is expanding its pipeline system to better
accommodate growing domestic natural gas consumption as well as to transit more natural
gas to European consumers.
International and regional politics play a role in any pipeline that crosses borders, but politics
is particularly critical in realizing pipelines proposed to transit Turkey. Russia-Ukraine
relations and Russia-EU relations have both had a prominent role in Gazprom's planned
Turkish stream pipeline. Relations between Turkey the Kurdish Regional Government and
the Iraqi central government will likely affect plans to build a pipeline from northern Iraq to
Turkey. Additionally, insurgents in Turkey and in neighboring countries have, on several
occasions, attacked natural gas pipelines.

Table 3. Turkey's major natural gas pipelines

Facility
Trans Balkan
natural gas
pipeline

Status
operating

Capacity (Tcf)
0.5

Total length (miles) Supply regions

more than
600

Russia

Markets
Southeast Europe
and Turkey

TabrizDogubayazit
Blue stream

operating

0.5

1,600

Iran

Turkey

operating

0.6

750

Russia

Turkey

South Caucuses
Pipeline (SCP)

operating

0.3

430

Azerbaijan

Georgia and Turkey

Interconnector
Turkey-GreeceItaly

operating (TurkeyGreece)

0.4

180

Azerbaijan, Russia,
and Iran

Greece

Arab Gas Pipeline

(AGP)

operating
(to Syria)

0.4

630

Egypt

Jordan, Lebanon,
and Syria

South Caucasus
Pipeline
(expansion)
Trans-Anatolian
Pipeline (TANAP)

construction to start
in 2015

0.6

430

Azerbaijan

construction

0.6

1,150

Azerbaijan

Georgia, Turkey,
and southeast
Europe
Turkey and Europe

Details
first deliveries to
Turkey in 1987;
transits Ukraine,
Moldova,
Romania, and
Bulgaria
started operations in
2001
started operations in
2003
first deliveries to
Turkey in 2007;
follows the route of
the BTC oil pipeline
from Azerbaijan,
through Georgia,
and connects to
Turkey's domestic
transmission
pipeline system
Turkey-Greece
interconnector
started operations in
2007; there has
been little progress
on extending the
line through Greece
and to Italy
started operations in
2003; an extension
to allow deliveries to
Turkey and Europe
had been planned;
annual throughput is
much lower than the
design capacity, as
the pipeline is
frequently
sabotaged
expected to start
operations in 2019
expected to start
operations in 2019;
will receive natural
gas from the SCP
expansion at
Turkey's border with
Georgia and deliver
natural gas to
Turkey's borders

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration based on Gazprom, GazpromExport, Natural Gas Europe, BP, Edison, Arab Republic of Egypt, Ministry of
Petroleum, Reuters, Trans Adriatic Pipeline, Platt's International Gas Report, Nefte Compass, and Eastring.

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Facility

Status

Capacity (Tcf)

Total length (miles) Supply regions

Markets

Trans Adriatic
Pipeline (TAP)

construction to
begin in 2016

0.4

540

Azerbaijan via
TANAP and SCP

Italy and Southeast

Europe

Turkish stream line 1

planning

0.6

more than
500

Russia

Turkey

Turkish stream lines 2-4

planning

1.7

more than
500

Russia

Southeast Europe
via Turkey

Iraq-Turkey

proposed

0.4 - 0.7

--

northern Iraq

Turkey and
southeast Europe

Interconnector
Turkey-Bulgaria
(ITB)

proposed

0.1

--

Azerbaijan

Bulgaria

Eastring

proposed

up to
1.4

more than
500

bidirectional between northeast Europe,

southeast Europe, and Turkey

South stream

canceled

2.2

560
(offshore)

Russia

Turkey and
southeast Europe

Details
with Bulgaria and
Greece; follows the
route of Turkey's
existing domestic
transmission
pipeline system
expected to start
operations by 2020;
expandable to 0.7
Tcf; built mainly to
carry natural gas
from Azerbaijan via
the SCP expansion
and TANAP, but
could carry natural
gas from Russia or
any other source
transiting Turkey
announced
completion by end
of 2016
by 2019; will follow
much of the planned
route for South
stream but will make
landfall near Kiyikoy,
Turkey rather than
in Bulgaria
Turkey continues to
negotiate with the
Kurdish Regional
government and the
Iraqi government;
while no agreement
has been reached,
BOTAS has begun
extending the
domestic natural
gas transmission
system to the Iraqi
border
would allow Bulgaria
to implement a
supply contract it
signed with
Azerbaijan in 2013
would be open
access, per EU
regulations; would
run from eastern
Slovakia, across
Hungary and
Romania,
connecting to an
upgraded Trans
Balkan line in
Romania or Bulgaria
canceled in late
2014 and replaced
with Turkish stream

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration based on Gazprom, GazpromExport, Natural Gas Europe, BP, Edison, Arab Republic of Egypt, Ministry of
Petroleum, Reuters, Trans Adriatic Pipeline, Platt's International Gas Report, Nefte Compass, and Eastring.

Liquefied natural gas

In 2013, Turkey imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) from seven countries (Algeria, Nigeria,
Qatar, Norway, Egypt, Netherlands, and France), which accounted for 13% of Turkey's total
natural gas supply according to Cedigaz.25 LNG volumes arrive at the country's two
terminals, Marmara Ereglisi in Tekirdag and the Aliaga terminal in Izmir. Marmara Ereglisi
has been in operation since 1994 and is owned by BOTA. Marmara Ereglisi has an annual

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capacity of 280 Bcf. The Aliaga terminal is owned by EgeGaz, and has an annual capacity of
210 Bcf of natural gas.26
Although Turkey is encouraging natural gas transit across Turkey via pipelines, it is
discouraging LNG transit. Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria have all, at one time or another,
proposed building LNG import facilities on their Black Sea coasts. However, the only way for
an LNG tanker to reach such a facility would be through the Turkish Straits, and Turkish
authorities have indicated that they would not allow LNG vessels to transit the straits for
safety reasons. Additionally, the straits are already a major shipping chokepoint, especially
for cargo classified as hazardous (which includes LNG as well as crude oil and other
petroleum liquids).

Coal
Coal, particularly lignite, is Turkey's most abundant indigenous energy resource and is an important fuel for electricity
generation.
In 2012, coal production accounted for 47% of Turkey's total primary energy production on a
Btu basis. Most of Turkey's coal reserves are lignite reserves with about 300-500 million tons
of hard coal reserves.27 Turkey's lignite reserves tend to be low quality reserves with a low
heat content,28 and estimates of lignite reserves tend to be either about 2,000 million tons or
about 10,000 million tons depending on the methodology used.29 In 2012, Turkey produced
77 million short tons (MMst) of total coal, 95% of which was lignite. Turkey also imported 32
MMst of coal in 2012, most of which was hard coal.
Coal-fired power stations are an important source for Turkey's electricity generation, and
there is renewed interest in exploiting Turkey's domestic coal resources. Coal-fired
generation accounted for 28% of total electricity production in Turkey in 2012, including 17%
from lignite and 11% from hard coal.30 Turkey has several new coal plants under
construction and more plants proposed.

Electricity
Following the restructuring of Turkey's electricity sector, both consumption and generation of electricity have expanded.
Most electricity is generated using fossil fuel sources, although the government plans to displace at least some of this
generation with nuclear power.
In 2012, Turkey's total electricity generating capacity was 57 million kilowatts, and total net
electricity generation was 228 billion kilowatthours. Turkey's electricity consumption more
than doubled between 2001 to 2012. Because of the economic slowdown, consumption
declined by about 3% in 2009 compared with the previous year. Since then consumption has
grown by 5% to 10% per year, accounting for much of the total growth since 2001.
Most of Turkey's electricity generation comes from fossil fuel-fired power plants (72% of total
generation in 2012) with natural gas accounting for more than half of all fossil fuel-fired
generation. Electricity from hydroelectric facilities also accounts for a significant share of
Turkey's total generation (25%). Although Turkey does not currently generate any electricity
from nuclear power, the government has been advocating construction of nuclear power
plants to diversify Turkey's electricity supply portfolio.

Sector organization
The state-owned and vertically integrated Turkish Electricity Authority controlled generation,
transmission, and distribution of electricity in Turkey prior to the electric sector reforms that
began in the 1980s. Since then, the government has passed several laws which have
unbundled and partially privatized the Turkish electric sector.
The state-owned Electricity Generation Company (EUAS) remains the largest electric
generation company in Turkey controlling about 40% of all generation capacity in Turkey.31
The remaining generation comes from independent power producers and firms given special
state concessions to build and operate power plants. The wholesale electricity market in
Turkey is also open to private companies; however it is dominated by the state-owned
Turkish Electricity Trading and Contracting company (TETAS).

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Transmission and distribution services are separate (unbundled) from generation and
marketing services. The Turkish Electricity Transmission Company, a state-owned
enterprise, owns and operates the transmission system. There are 21 electric distribution
regions in Turkey, most of which are operated by private companies.

Nuclear
Turkey plans to build nuclear power plants at three sites: Akkuyu, on the Mediterranean
coast; Sinop, on the Black Sea coast; and a third yet-to-be-decided location. The formal
ground-breaking ceremony marking the official start of construction at Akkuyu took place in
April 2015. In accordance with an agreement signed by Turkey and Russia in 2010,
Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear company, will build, own, and operate the Akkuyu plant. The
Turkish state electric generation company, EUAS, is expected to take a stake in the power
plant. The plant will have four units with a total capacity of 4.8 gigawatts, and the first unit is
expected to begin operating about 2020.
Construction at Sinop for Turkey's second nuclear power plant is planned to start in 2017.
The Sinop plant will be built by a Japanese and French consortium and operated by GdF
Suez. EUAS is also expected to take a stake in the power plant. The Sinop plant will have
four units with a total capacity of 4.6 gigawatts, with the first unit expected to begin operating
in 2023.
Since November 2014, Turkey has been in exclusive negotiations with the State Nuclear
Power Technology Corporation of China to build a third nuclear power plant in Turkey using
reactors from U.S. firm Westinghouse. The location of the third plant has not been decided,
and construction is not expected to begin until 2019 at the earliest.32

Notes
Data presented in the text are the most recent available as of July 7, 2015.
Data are EIA estimates unless otherwise noted.

Endnotes
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13

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14

Oil & Gas Journal, "Worldwide Look at Reserves and Production," (December 1, 2014) p. 32.

15

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16

IEA, Oil & Gas Security, Emergency Response of IEA Countries, Turkey (2013), p. 15.

17

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18

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22
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23

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24

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26

IEA, Oil & Gas Security, Emergency Response of IEA Countries, Turkey (2013), p. 16.

27

According to BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2014 Turkey had 322 million tonnes of Anthracite and bituminous proved coal reserves at the end of
2013; according to Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Energy Study 2014, (December 2014), p. 90, Turkey had 384 million tons
of hard coal reserves at the end of 2013; and according to European Association for Coal and Lignite, Country Profiles: Turkey, accessed June 2, 2015,
Turkey had 512 million tonnes hard coal proved reserves at the end of 2012.
28

European Association for Coal and Lignite, Country Profiles: Turkey, accessed June 2, 2015.

29

According to BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2013 Turkey had 1,814 million tonnes of proved lignite reserves at the end of 2012; According to BP
Statistical Review of World Energy 2014 Turkey had 8,380 million tonnes of proved lignite reserves at the end of 2013; according to Federal Institute for
Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Energy Study 2014, (December 2014), p. 98, Turkey had 2,055 million tons of lignite reserves at the end of 2013;
and according to European Association for Coal and Lignite, Country Profiles: Turkey, accessed June 2, 2015, Turkey had 13,442 million tonnes hard coal
proved reserves at the end of 2012.
30

European Association for Coal and Lignite, The role of coal in EU Power generation (2012), accessed June 2, 2015.

31

Electricity Generation Company, Company Profile, accessed June 6, 2015.

32

World Nuclear Association, Country Profiles, Nuclear Power in Turkey, accessed June 6, 2015.

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