Expect good news on Black Sea gas reserves: Turkey s Erdogan
Jun 2, 2021 5:35:pm
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by: Joseph Murphy
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Expect good news on Black Sea gas reserves: Turkey s Erdogan
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan has said he will announce good news regarding the country s gas exploration work in the Black Sea on June 4.
Turkey reported the 302bn m
3 Sakarya gas discovery in August 2020 in its Black Sea zone, representing the country s biggest-ever find and one of the largest to be made globally that year. Two months later Erdogan said that following further appraisal work, the resource estimate for Sakarya had been raised to 405bn m
Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea have been freed in Nigeria and will head home, a shipping company executive said on Friday, two weeks after the attackers made contact to discuss a ransom. Speaking to state TV broadcaster TRT Haber, Levent Karsan from Istanbul-based Boden Shipping said the sailors were all in good health in Nigeria and would be brought to Turkey in the coming days. Karsan did not share details of the talks but said he hoped the incident would prompt officials at the United Nations and International Maritime Organisation to take action against piracy in the region.