Commodities

Turkey Announces Massive Boost to Black Sea Natural-Gas Reserves Estimate

  • President Erdogan says reserves reach 710 billion cubic meters
  • Reserves boost comes ahead of crucial elections in 2023

Drilling ships at the Sakarya gas field, in Turkey.

Photographer: Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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Turkey boosted its estimate of natural gas reserves in the Black Sea by nearly a third, thanks to appraisal work at an existing field and a separate discovery, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

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