Posted by meb at June 14th, 2008

Turkey’s energy minister said on Friday that Turkey has been talking to Syria and Iraq about extracting natural gas from Iraq’s Akkas fields.

“We are planning to carry Iraqi gas through a pipeline right next to the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik oil pipeline. We are holding trilateral negotiations with Syria and Iraq to extract and use gas in the Akkas fields, and we hope our talks will yield a positive result,” Energy Minister Hilmi Guler told a Turkish-Arab economic forum in Istanbul.

Guler said a tender to build Turkey’s first nuclear power plant is still open and that Arab companies could also submit offers, reported the Anatolia news agency.

“We can work together on that issue, too,” Guler was quoted by Anatolia as saying at the forum.
source: Today’s Zaman

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