Subsea pipe completed to transfer Black Sea gas to shore

By Zeynep Beyza Kilic

ANKARA (AA) - Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) announced the completion of the pipeline carrying natural gas from the Black Sea to shore on Wednesday.

"The installation of pipes connecting our energy base in the Black Sea to the Sakarya Gas Field Land Facility has been successfully completed," the TPAO tweet read.

Gas transmission from the Black Sea is expected to begin with an opening ceremony on April 20.

In August 2020, 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas were discovered in the Tuna-1 well in the Black Sea, 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 was 405 billion cubic meters.

Following the discovery of 135 billion cubic meters in the Amasra-1 well in June 2021, the 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 reevaluation of gas reserves found that the country's total gas reserves reached 710 billion cubic meters by the end of 2022, with a market value in the region of $1 trillion.