{"id":9991,"date":"2025-05-19T10:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:46:37","slug":"turkey-finds-new-natural-gas-reserve-in-black-sea-erdogan-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/turkey-finds-new-natural-gas-reserve-in-black-sea-erdogan-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey finds new natural gas reserve in Black Sea, Erdogan says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL, May 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkey has discovered a new reserve of 75 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas during drilling works in the Black Sea, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With this discovery, we will meet the natural gas needs of homes in Turkey for 3.5 years,&#8221; Erdogan said during an event in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discovery, with an economic value of around $30 billion, was found in the Goktepe-3 well at a depth of 3,500 metres, Erdogan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s daily natural gas production at its flagship Sakarya field in the Black Sea has reached around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/turkey-eyes-regional-energy-expansion-black-sea-gas-output-rises-2025-04-21\/\">9.5 million cubic metres<\/a>, as the country ramps up its energy ambitions both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, which imports over 90% of its energy needs, is pushing to cut its import bill and boost supply security by developing domestic resources and expanding international partnerships in oil and gas exploration.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL, May 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkey has discovered a new reserve of 75 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas during drilling works in the Black Sea, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. &#8220;With this discovery, we will meet the natural gas needs of homes in Turkey for 3.5 years,&#8221; Erdogan said during an event [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}