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    Hurriyet Daily News: Delivering Greek Cyprus Gas Via Egypt Not Feasible: Turkey

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Turkey's Minister for Energy Taner Yildiz has said that, despite suggestions Cypriot gas could be delivered to Europe via Egypt, obstacles will prevent it

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Press Notes, Africa

Hurriyet Daily News: Delivering Greek Cyprus Gas Via Egypt Not Feasible: Turkey

Turkey’s energy minister has deemed that delivering natural gas from Greek Cyprus via Egypt was not feasible.

Leaders from Egypt, Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration gathered on April 29 to discuss the possibility of delivering Greek Cyprus’s natural gas via Egypt.

“It is said that they will bring the gas to Egypt as liquefied natural gas [LNG],” said Taner Yıldız, Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister, during a breakfast organized for economic journalists in Kayseri, a province in Turkey’s central Anatolian region. 

“When declining oil prices and high cost of LNG are taken into consideration, I do not find this decision feasible for them. This decision represents only a political obstinacy.”
 
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