Türkiye’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources reveals that the Oruç Reis seismic research vessel will soon be sent to Somalia
Türkiye has received its first-ever floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which docked in the Çanakkale province.
The FPSO will double gas production from the country’s Sakarya deepwater gas field located in the Black Sea.
BW Offshore
The FPSO, which was acquired from BW Offshore in 2023 and left Singapore for Türkiye in July 2024, will be operational by 2026. It will be deployed in the Black Sea for 20 years.
The Sakarya gas field, discovered in 2020, has reserves estimated at 710 bcm. The field is currently producing 6 mcm/d (2.19 bcm/year) of gas.
Develop production
The output is expected to increase to 10 mcm/d (3.65 bcm/year) by the first quarter of 2025, and production will double to 20 mcm/d (7.3 bcm/year) with the activation of the FPSO.
Türkiye meets almost all of its gas consumption needs with imports (98% in 2023), hence the need to develop production at home. The country imported over 50 bcm of gas in 2023, for a consumption of 51.5 bcm.
Sakarya gas field
Türkiye Petrolleri A.O. (TPAO) has confirmed that the FPSO will move to the gas field in the Black Sea for other preparations after the technical ones are completed in Çanakkale and the activation work in Filyos.
The FPSO is scheduled to begin its job at the Sakarya gas field in 2026 approximately 170 kilometers offshore, as Türkiye’s production base at sea.
9 million households
“The facility, which will process 10 million cubic meters of natural gas per day and transmit it to the grid, will double the production in the Sakarya gas field and meet the natural gas needs of an additional 4.4 million households on its own,” emphasized Bayraktar.
Türkiye’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources explains that the country is set to produce enough natural gas for approximately 9 million households in 2026.
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Below the seabed
Bayraktar further elaborates that the production base, which is around the size of three football fields or 300 meters long, 56 meters wide, and 58 meters high, will be fixed 20 meters below the seabed with 20 special anchors at the duty station.
Suggestions
Once online, approximately 140 personnel are expected to work at the FPSO, while 165 people in total, including the team on land, will work 24/7 in the operation stage. No name has been given to the unit yet, as suggestions are still being considered.
“Ultimately, we will evaluate these and present them to our President. We will send this facility off to its place of duty with a name befitting its size and magnificence,” underlined Bayraktar, who confirmed plans to undertake further exploration drilling activities in the Black Sea this year to boost gas production levels.
Oruç Reis
In addition, Türkiye’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources reveals that the Oruç Reis seismic research vessel will soon be sent to Somalia, adding: “Oruç Reis will conduct 3D seismic studies in a 15,000 square kilometer license area given to Turkish Petroleum.”
