Turkey’s Fatih drillship has made a natural gas discovery of some 320 Bcm (~11 Tcf) at the Tuna-1 well in Turkey’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Black Sea, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced today. This is the first significant gas discovery in Turkey and comes at a time when tensions are high in the eastern Mediterranean over Turkey’s encroachment of Greece and Cypriot offshore territory there, ostensibly in the pursuit of natural gas reserves.
Erdogan said the resource could be ...
Photo: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking today from Istanbul's iconic Dolmabache Palace (credit Office of the Turkish Presidency)
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