Azerbaijan has increased gas supplies to Turkey up to 16 million cubic meters a day, a source in the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) said. Previously, daily volume of Azerbaijani gas deliveries to Turkey amounted to 13-14 million cubic meters, Trend News reports.

"The gas supplies to Turkey increased and now the figure is about 16 million cubic meters a day," the source said.

The country increased gas supplies in connection with suspension of Iranian gas supplies to Turkey due to a heavy blast occurred along a pipeline transporting gas from Iran to Turkey on Tuesday evening in Eleshkirt in the Turkish province of Agri.

Iranian gas supplies to Turkey were suspended as a result. Supplies to Turkey will resume in 7-8 days, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said.

Azerbaijan supplies gas to Turkey under a contract on the Shah Deniz offshore gas condensate field. Based on the contract, Turkey receives an annual 6.6 billion cubic meters of gas during the field's first stage. The field's total reserves are estimated at 1.2 trillion cubic meters.

Gas produced at Shah Deniz is transported to Turkey via the South Caucasus Pipeline. Its length is over 700 kilometers. The pipeline's power flow is more than 20 billion cubic meters of gas per year.