Iran Gas Crunch Forces Mideast Buyers to Seek Alternative Supply
- Iraq and Turkey are being hit by reduced flows from Iran
- Turkey taps wider market for supply, Iraq eyes Qatari LNG
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Iran’s tight gas market is reverberating across the Middle East, as a drop in its exports forces key customers Iraq and Turkey to seek alternative supplies and curb electricity output.
Iraq has some 6 gigawatts of power capacity -- around a third of its total, according to the International Energy Agency -- sitting idle after Iran cut gas exports due to cold weather, Electricity Minister Adel Kareem said on Tuesday.