Gas reserves in Turkish fields reached 710 billion cubic meters
After the discovery of a new field in the Black Sea, the volume of gas discovered by Turkey is 710 billion has reached cubic meters
After discovering a new field in the Black Sea and adjusting the volume of the previous discovery, the volume of gas discovered by Turkey is 710 billion has reached cubic meters.
Statement on this the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan given on December 26.
Speaking after a government meeting the president said that Turkey Reserve in Chaycuma-1 mine is 58 billion discovered another deposit estimated to be cubic meters.
According to him, the estimated volume of the previously discovered gas has been adjusted.
Now it is estimated that there are 652 billion cubic meters of gas in the Sakarya field instead of 540 billion cubic meters.
Erdogan added that 13 new wells were drilled in the Sakarya field.
According to him, with the discovery of new reserves in the Chaycuma-1 field, the estimated total reserve has reached 710 billion cubic meters.
It will be commissioned in 2023
Erdogan last month he said Turkey The operation of the Sakarya field will be able to start from 2023.
He said on December 26 that Chaycuma-1 will be connected to the Sakarya field and from there to Turkey gas will be connected to the network.
Reuters reports that it has very little oil and gas having reserves Turkey for energy carriers Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran, as well as Qatar, USAdepends on imported liquefied natural gas from Nigeria and Algeria.
Turkey also conducts hydrocarbon exploration in the disputed waters of the Mediterranean Sea, which has led to tensions between it and Greece and Cyprus.
In addition, after the failure of the pipelines of the North Stream in the Baltic Sea Russia the president Vladimir Putin put forward such an idea that in Turkey Russia “node” can be created for receiving gas.
Erdogan said that he accepted this idea.