Ankara also has plans to significantly increase gas production in the Black Sea starting next year.
Turkey will begin new drilling operations to search for oil in the southwestern Black Sea. Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar spoke about this on Friday, December 27, reports CNN Turk.
“We are working intensively to conduct new drilling for exploration purposes. In particular, we have discovered an area in the Chaeli region of Rize province, which is constantly being talked about as an oil field. We want to conduct a drilling work there,” said Alparslan Bayraktar.
He noted that Turkey is also increasing gas production in the Black Sea. Production from the Sakarya gas field in the Black Sea has reached 7 million cubic meters to date. m and must exceed 9 million cubic meters. m in the first quarter of 2025.
There are plans to increase production to 9.5-10 million cubic meters, and then to 20 million cubic meters.
In addition, Turkey has proposals for exploration work in the Black Sea and the Bulgarian coast.
Let’s remember that last year a new large oil field was discovered in Turkey. Its quality is comparable to Arabic.
There was an explosion at a refinery in Turkey, there were casualties
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