The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that thanks to the active exploration and production of natural gas, the country has already been given the opportunity to provide 2 million households with this fuel from its own resources.
„We have made great progress in providing our country with resources. The daily production of natural gas at Filhos (the gas terminal where gas is supplied from the Sakarya field in the Black Sea) exceeded 5.1 million cubic meters, meeting the natural gas needs of 2 million households. Our drilling vessel Fatih has started drilling two more wells in the Sakarya gas field,” he said during a speech at the end of a government meeting that was broadcast on local TV channels.
Erdogan also said the country's historical record had been broken, and daily oil production at Gabar in southeastern Turkey had increased to more than 43,000 barrels. “By the end of the year, we intend to increase this figure to 100,000 barrels,”, he said.
The Turkish president also noted that research and drilling continue in other southeastern regions of the country. “Exploration and drilling continue in Hakkari and Siirt, which benefit Turkey, which cannot develop them due to decades of rampant terrorism in these areas,”, Erdogan said. Now, he said, “terrorism in these regions is losing ground” and this will have a positive impact on the country's economy.