Türkiye has intensified production at the Sarkarya gas field, the largest discovery in the Black Sea, to approximately 4 million cubic meters of natural gas per day, according to the CEO of Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) on Wednesday.
Türkiye is on course with phase one of the field's production goal to initially produce 10 million cubic meters of natural gas per day.
'We will move forward by optimizing and better understanding the realities of reservoir capacity in the field,' Melih Han Bilgin, TPAO CEO, said during the Petroleum and Natural Gas Congress and Exhibition of Türkiye (IPETGAS 2023).
Bilgin also confirmed that production in the field would gradually increase.
In August 2020, 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas were discovered in the Tuna-1 well in the Sakarya field, making it the country's largest gas discovery in history.
With an additional 85 billion cubic meters discovered in October 2020, the total quantity of discovered gas reserves reached 405 billion cubic meters.
Following the discovery of 135 billion cubic meters from the Amasra-1 well in June 2021, Black Sea gas reserves totaled 540 billion cubic meters.
A further 58 billion cubic meters of gas were found in December 2022 in the Caycuma-1 well in the southwestern part of the Black Sea.
A re-evaluation of gas reserves found that the country's total gas reserves reached 710 billion cubic meters at the end of 2022, with a market value in the region of $1 trillion.
By Basak Erkalan
Anadolu Agency
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