Is Turkey extracting oil and fuel at sea?

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While major European media have reduced the deterioration of EU-Turkey relations to the unrest of The “renewed” Basilica of Hagia Sophia and Lithroughan’s long power war, its power ties have been similarly hampered by Turkey’s extensive drilling crusade on the Cypriot coast. generating bad blood between the Old Continent and Ankara. Driven by their supposed purpose of drilling 26 wells in the eastern Mediterranean, each of Turkey’s wild cats in Cypriot waters has measured Europe’s unity and been kind to their poor preparation for Turkish actions. Turkey has now begun to pierce its original purpose along its north coast, the Black Sea, the only undeniably Turkish marine domain. The Turkish-passing government’s reluctance to drill the Black Sea first may largely explain why drilling in the Mediterranean may be more advantageous. The Turkish drilling vessel Fatih started exploration paintings on the Turkish Black Sea plateau in July and is believed to have dumped the wild cat Tuna-1 on July 20. Tuna-1 will be drilled at an intensity of more than 2 km, having been known as prospective. drilling site after three-dimensional seismic surveys in the domain in April-May 2019 (using the Polar Empress vessel). The location of the Tuna-1 well is special because TPAO made the decision to pass right next to the ring of the Romanian-Bulgarian-Ukrainian-Turkish maritime border, in block 26 in deep water. Turns out the location of the wild cat is not far from there. of Ukraine’s Skifsky block and (perhaps most importantly) the largest deep-sea discovery of the deep waters of the Black Sea, the NEptun box operated through the OMV in Romania, is a planned attempt to maximize the prospects of the well to obtain good fortune by drilling as close as imaginable to the advertising discoveries shown.

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Turkey’s focus on its Black Sea perspective emerged in the 2000s, as the country’s power wants to increase amid stagnant (and low) production rates. TPAO joined BP to drill the Hopa-1 wild cat in Block 3534, Eastern Black Sea Turkey off the maritime border with Georgia, assuming a prospective fuel of 10 TCf, but were forced to abandon drilling due to poor quality. reservoir. and overpressure disorders have made other activities unnecessary. At the height of the Black Sea assessment, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Petrobras, BP participated, making it the Black Sea region in terms of primary participation. Despite some minor discoveries in the shallow waters of the Black Sea (Akcakoca), the Ambitious claims of the Turkish authorities of 10 billion barrels of mendacity oil at the back of the sea awaiting discovery have largely proved to be chimeras as no deepwater drilling has been performed. so far it has not distinguished itself commercially.

Turkey’s attachment to its Black Sea dominance has a dual purpose. First, drilling the tuna wild cat and other exploration wells diverts the profane from Turkey’s activities in the eastern Mediterranean: along the Tuna-1, TPAO drilled another deepwater well in the Mediterranean Sea (Seljuk-1) using its Yavuz drilling boat. , located in Block 06 of Cyprus, jointly owned by Total and ENI. In the search for Seljuk-1, there is little mention in the media, which perhaps shows that the media has detached the likely inextricable dilemma of Cyprus. Although it obscures its Cyprus-related transactions, the explanation of why the launch of drilling in the Black Sea has no incidents: little explored and out of sight of large companies, consolidating their internal powers to assess the prospects of the Black Sea can still cause an unlikely surprise.

By Viktor Katona for Oilprice.com

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