BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 26
Trend:
Turkey will call on Russia for a discount for natural gas imports, Trend reports on Feb.26 referring to Turkish media.
The Turkish national pipeline company BOTAS hasn’t announced the price of Russian natural gas, the media said.
"According to preliminary data, Ankara will require a discount on Russian natural gas at the beginning of March 2021," the reports said.
The reason for this, as the media reported, is Turkey's discovery of natural gas reserves in the Black sea, which are to be exploited in 2023.
Currently, Turkey imports gas from Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia. Besides, Ankara signed agreements with Algeria, Nigeria and Qatar for the supply of liquefied natural gas.
In 2019, exploration drilling work was carried out in Turkey to search for hydrocarbons, 5,063 exploration wells were drilled. During the year, the total depth of exploration drilling operations amounted to over 9.5 million meters.
At the same time, TPAO drilled 3,048 exploration wells with total footage of 6,145,929 meters.
Some 104 wells with a total depth of 133,386 meters were drilled by organizations of the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration of Turkey (MTA), 257 wells with a total depth of 311,662 meters were drilled by other Turkish companies.
Foreign companies drilled 1,312 exploration wells with a total depth of over 2.24 million meters, and joint ventures and consortiums - 342 wells.
From January through December 2019, 510 deposits were drilled by TPAO, 8 – by MTA, 24 – by other domestic companies, 306 - by foreign companies, and 93 deposits – by joint consortiums.