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Turkey revises up reserves in offshore gas fields: Minister
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Ankara, Dec 28 (TIWN) Turkey has revised up its natural gas recoverable reserves in the Sakarya gas field off the Black Sea coast after a re-evaluation work in the existing wells and a new discovery in the field, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez said.
The total amount of recoverable reserves in this field is now calculated to be 710 billion cubic meters (bcm), Donmez said at a media briefing.
The country announced its first discovery in the Black Sea with 405 bcm reserves in the Tuna-1 well in 2020 and made its second discovery with the Amasra-1 well with 135 bcm in 2021, thus the initial prediction of reserves in the Sakarya gas field was 540 bcm, Xinhua news agency quoted the Minister as saying.
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