Sourced : Daily Sabah
Turkey will increase its investment in seismic exploration and oil and natural gas drilling, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak said late Thursday during a fast-breaking dinner with the crew of the Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa vessel, a seismic surveying vessel that is conducting seismic research off of Cyprus, accompanied by Turkish Cypriot Economy and Energy Minister Sunat Atun and the undersecretary of the Energy and Natural Resources Ministry, Fatih Dönmez.
Albayrak indicated his hopes that the activation of a drilling vessel off the coast of Cyprus by the end of 2017 will allow for the start of drilling operations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, announcing that Turkey will drill its first well in the Mediterranean by the end of the third or fourth quarter of this year.
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