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2 Mar 2009 - Steel Guru - Itar-Tass reported that Gazprom has increased days gas supplies to Turkey by 25.4 million cubic meters. Gazprom press service said that on February 11th to 25 the volume of gas exports to Turkey through the Blue Stream gas pipeline had grown from 20 to 29 million cubic meters, as well as Russia's gas export through the western route via Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria - from 20 to 29 million cubic meters. The press service said at present, the overall gas export to Turkey is 67.4 million cubic meters a day. Gas supplies in a bigger volume continue. It is not the first time when the Russian gas giant meets the needs of Turkish gas consumers. Earlier, the Turkish Botas company had often asked for a bigger volume of gas exports, and Gazprom always satisfied the Turkish demand, given technical possibilities. Turkey is Russia's second biggest gas importer after Germany. In 2007, Russia exported 23.4 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey.