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Turkey plans to purchase more oil and gas from Iran amid greater energy needs and developing ties between the two countries, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. Making the remarks in an interview with the state-owned broadcaster, TRT Haber, on Monday, Erdogan said: “Turkey will increase its purchases of oil …

Turkey will resume gas exploration off its coast in the Mediterranean on 9 August, the energy ministry said Tuesday (26 July). “Turkish drilling ship Adbulhamid Han will start a mission in the Mediterranean on 9 August departing from the Mersin port” in the south of the country, it said in …

Tehran and Ankara agreed to start negotiations on a new gas exports agreement which would allow an increased supply of natural gas from Iran to Turkey for a period of 25 years starting in 2026. Talks on a new Iran-Turkey gas supply deal had started based on agreements reached between …

European natural gas prices fluctuated, with traders weighing the return of flows via Turkey against the risk of a further deterioration in supplies to the continent. Gas shipments via the TurkStream pipeline resumed after maintenance ended on Monday, Russia’s Gazprom said on Telegram. The link, which has an annual transport …

Turkey will start transferring 10 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas daily from the Sakarya Gas Field in the Black Sea to the national transmission system in the first quarter of 2023, the country’s president said on Monday. The production in Sakarya Gas Field will “hopefully reach its peak …

Turkey is lowering into the sea the first pipe that will deliver natural gas from the Sakarya field in the Black Sea to the land, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez said. Turkey will invest almost $10 billion in the project to produce and transport 540 billion cubic …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Greece of militarizing its islands in the Aegean Sea with an eye toward threatening Turkey, in but the latest salvo in a series of tit-for-tat accusations between the two NATO members. Erdogan urged immediate demilitarization of the islands, stressing Turkey will never …

Russia’s Gazprom has resumed shipping natural gas to Turkey after completing planned maintenance on the undersea Blue Stream gas pipeline, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday.

Representatives of Turkish companies that purchase oil and fat products in Russia expect supplies of such products to remain at a high level this year, the Russian Agriculture Ministry’s Agroexport Center said. “Representatives of Turkish companies, most of which already work with Russia, are confident that the quantity of supplies …

Europe’s biggest solar power plant, the under-construction Karapinar plant in Konya in south-central Turkey, is poised to be fully operational by the end of 2022, Cemal Kalyoncu, the chairman of Kalyon Holding, the company responsible for the project, said on Monday. The current installed capacity of the power plant is …