Turkey’s Erdogan Unveils New Natural Gas Discovery in Black Sea
- Erdogan: 135 billion cubic meters of gas in new deposits
- Black Sea reserves at 540 billion cubic meters after discovery
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the discovery of new natural gas deposits in the Black Sea, where Turkey plans to start production in 2023.
State energy company Tpao found 135 billion cubic meters of gas at the Amasra-1 offshore well, bringing the total amount of deposits discovered over the past year to 540 billion cubic meters, Erdogan said in televised remarks from the Black Sea coastal city of Zonguldak.