Kazakhstan’s state oil firm Kazmunaygas (KMG) is reportedly in advanced discussions with the trading arm of Azerbaijan’s state firm SOCAR to allow 1.5 million tons per year of Kazakh crude to be sold through the Azeri pipeline that delivers oil to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Kazakh oil is expected …
Read More »Turkey Sends Drill Ship on First Med Mission in Two Years
Turkey on Tuesday (9 August) sent its newest drill ship on the first eastern Mediterranean energy exploration mission in nearly two years. The search for natural gas in energy-rich waters around the divided island of Cyprus has turned into an irritant in Turkey’s ties with the European Union. President Recep …
Read More »Turkey Agrees to Pay for Russian Gas with Rubles
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin agreed on Friday to bolster cooperation after a four-hour meeting, a joint statement from the two nations has revealed as cited by Reuters. As part of the deal, which would increase cooperation in the transportation, agriculture, finance, and construction industries and …
Read More »Türkiye Becomes Main Market for Non-Oil Exports of Azerbaijan
Türkiye has become the primary market for Azerbaijan’s non-oil export, accounting for almost one-third of the oil-rich Caspian country’s non-oil products sold overseas. According to the results of the first five months of 2022, the share of Türkiye in the total non-oil exports of Azerbaijan settled at 32.8 percent, according …
Read More »Turkey to Increase Oil, Gas Imports from Iran
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 …
Read More »Turkey Prepares to Drill for Gas off Cyprus Early next Month
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 …
Read More »Iran, Turkey Discuss 25-Year Gas Deal
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 …
Read More »EU Gas Swings as Russia-Turkey Flows Resume while Risks Loom
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 …
Read More »Turkey to Start Transferring Natural Gas from Black Sea in 1st Quarter of 2023
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 …
Read More »Turkey Launches First Pipeline to Deliver Gas from Black Sea
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 …
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