The NOC said on Wednesday it had drilled to a depth of 2,771 meters so far and found a light oil stockpile, with further exploration prospects in the area.
She added that the well, called “Ipoque Yalcin-1”, is located 20 km northwest of Jezra district in the region and is currently producing about ten thousand barrels of oil per day.
The state oil company said it would drill successive appraisal wells in the area and develop a plan to fully develop the field by the end of the year, and had set a target production of 100,000 barrels per day, more than double Turkish oil. production.
Turkey, which produces little oil and gas, imports almost all of its energy needs: according to official data, it consumed 246 million barrels of imported crude oil in 2022, in addition to 29 million barrels of oil crude produced locally.
Turkey depends on imports from Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran in addition to LNG imports.
Ankara is also developing a natural gas field in the Black Sea containing 710 billion cubic meters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the oil discovery in a speech he gave on Tuesday at the opening ceremony of a group of projects in the central Turkish state of Konya, and Erdogan said: “I would like to announce another good news… We have discovered an oil field with a production capacity of 100,000 barrels per day in Cudi Gabar”, a mountainous region in the province of Sirnak.
The Turkish President added that his country, after this discovery and the previous discoveries at sea and the nuclear power plants it intends to establish, will become an energy exporting country.
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