TPAO discovers more Black Sea natural gas

Turkish state oil company TPAO has discovered a natural gas deposit in the Black Sea with estimated in-place volumes of 135 billion cu m (bcm). The Amasra-1 well was spudded on North Sakarya field in April 2021 by Turkish Petroleum Corp. drillship Fatih in the Turkish sector.

The discovery increased TPAO’s Black Sea gas volumes to 540 bcm following last year’s Sakarya discovery. First gas from Sakarya is expected by early 2023 (OGJ Online, Oct. 19, 2020).