Türkiye plans to extract as much as 40 million cubic meters per day from the Sakarya area, initially beginning with 10 million cubic meters, says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Türkiye will meet roughly 30 % of its annual pure gasoline wants from Black Sea reserves when it reaches full capability, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared.
Speaking on the commissioning ceremony of Black Sea pure gasoline in Zonguldak on Thursday, Erdogan stated Türkiye is “taking a historic step towards energy independence.”
“When we reach full capacity, we will be able to meet about 30 percent of our country’s yearly need from these reserves,” the Turkish president stated, including that it took lower than three years for Türkiye to supply the found gasoline to customers.
“We will extract 10 million cubic meters of gas per day from the Sakarya field in the first place and 40 million cubic meters per day in the future through the new gas wells that we will drill,” he added.
Erdogan additional stated the Black Sea pure gasoline won’t solely “significantly reduce our country’s dependence on foreign natural gas, but also make Filyos and Zonguldak an important energy hub.”
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Türkiye’s President Erdogan:
– Natural gasoline consumption in homes will probably be free for 1 month, together with heating
– 25 cubic metres of gasoline per 30 days will probably be free for 1 12 months for homes
– We’re defending our individuals towards rising vitality prices pic.twitter.com/OyhxFr9wjw— TRT World (@trtworld) April 20, 2023
Largest gasoline discovery
In August 2020, 320 billion cubic meters of pure gasoline had been found within the Tuna-1 properly within the Black Sea, making it the nation’s largest gasoline discovery in historical past.
With an extra 85 billion cubic meters found in October 2020, the overall amount of found gasoline reserves was 405 billion cubic meters.
Following the invention of 135 billion cubic meters within the Amasra-1 properly in June 2021, the Black Sea gasoline reserves totalled 540 billion cubic meters.
An extra 58 billion cubic meters of gasoline had been present in December 2022 within the Caycuma-1 properly within the southwestern a part of the Black Sea.
An impartial analysis discovered that the nation’s complete gasoline reserves would attain 710 billion cubic meters by the top of 2022, with a market worth within the area of $1 trillion.
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Source: AA
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