The situation in regard to who has enough gas to supply whom, is getting just a little hard to follow in the area around Georgia.  The other day I had noted that Iran was supplying gas to Georgia to make up for the losses due to the pipeline explosion.  Now I read that Iran is having problems with meeting it's own demands for gas, due to the winter, and has cut supplies to Turkey.

Iran had raised the gas it pumps to Turkey to 10 million cubic metres, still well short of the 26 million cubic metres a day previously agreed between the two neighbours.

Last week Iran cut the flow to 5 million cubic metres a day, but the supply subsequently rose to 8-10 million cubic metres before falling again to 5.48 million on Wednesday.

Iran says it had to reduce its exports because harsh winter weather has raised consumption at home.

And so who is helping Turkey out (since it has reached the point that it is starting to close factories and redirect supplies). Remembering that Russia has had to reduce supplies to Europe, now for the eighth day, because of the severity of the temperature drops in Moscow and points East, guess who?

Russia, the biggest supplier of natural gas to Turkey, has stepped in to help cover the shortfall.

And, recognizing the threat to supply, Hungary and Croatia have signed agreements to install an LNG terminal on the Adriatic, and Poland is giving serious thought to the idea.  (Which, apropos yesterday's post, will require even more tankers be built.) In the meanwhile Ukraine continues to take gas from the pipeline transiting gas to Europe, in quantities above the levels agreed.