Speaking at the opening ceremony of the gas pipeline in the north of Kastamonu province, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the drilling of nine out of ten wells in the first stage of exploitation of the Sakarya gas field on the seabed has been completed. .

“Turkey has built an energy base in Sakarya and will become a reference market for natural gas, including domestic supplies. We are preparing to build an advanced natural gas market where more products, more contracts come together to form reference prices. We hope to start using these gases next year.”[1]- said President Erdoğan.

The first one at hand: if we had not gone through the disaster of Liviu Dragnea’s governments with three puppet prime ministers – i.e. Sorin Grindianu, the current Minister of Transport, today’s MEP Mihai Tudose and Viorika Vasilika Dencile, one with her husband, the former head of OMV assets Petrom and recently the president of the WE party – we could make a decision on commercial exploitation by 2018 and start gas production from the “Neptunian Deep” with the operator ExxonMobil already in 2019. We would be the first and, therefore, the ones who would set the base price for Black Sea gas.

Instead, I hope we remember[2]in July 2019, ExxonMobil decided it was no longer worth praying to the changing politicians at Victoria Palace and salvaged what was left of its initial investment by selling.

Therefore, we Romanians still do not know when we will start developing the Neptune Deep field! We are still doing the calculations, but they are a bit more complicated now because instead of ExxonMobil we have OMV and instead of OMV we have Romgaz. Moreover, we have a war in the Black Sea, which also confuses the accounts, burdening the costs.

Second in hand: (geo)physics. The simple physics of natural gas circulation in fields, regardless of how deep they are, tells us that if the development of the Turkish field begins next year, and we delay for another 3-4 years, then gases from the Neptune Deep field will begin to be released. migrate to a potential gap created by mining in a nearby Turkish deposit.

If Total also takes it before us at the Bulgarian Khan Asparukh field, we are out! When we start producing we will probably find (if we can, but some calculations will certainly be made and they are made!) that we have 30% if not 50% less gas in our fields than we expected

Of course, our good politicians (the current coalition, the sovereigntists, assembled by AUR, alde Dragnia and his gang of ghouls with doctorates and others who usefully pedal the idea of ​​national pride to reach parliament or state subsidies for their minor parties) may have tried to reduce the threat to energy safety of our ancestors by changing the laws of physics in parliament! What else is left for us…

SO IS THE PROCEDURE, GENTLEMEN, WITH “BLOWS WITH SWORDS, NOT NEEDLES”[3]!

At the beginning of 2021 Bloomberg spread the news that Turkish Petroleum Corp. (TPAO), had previous contacts with international oil companies with the aim of establishing partnerships for the financing and execution of natural gas extraction works from the Sakarya perimeter in the Black Sea.[4]

Sakarya is located near the borders of the offshore commercial zones of Romania and Bulgaria, 175 kilometers from the Turkish coast, and is considered the largest natural gas discovery in the Black Sea to date. In the neighborhood of Sakarya is the Romanian perimeter Neptune Deep, also deep-water, with reserves estimated at 42-84 billion cubic meters.

While Neptune Deep is expected to begin operations in 2026-2027, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ambition, which is moving closer to reality, is for development of the Sakarya deepwater perimeter to begin before the 2023 presidential election. The reserves of the Sakarya field are estimated between 330 and 405 billion cubic meters, that is, more than 8 times more than Turkey’s gas imports. Read the entire article and leave comments on Contributors.ro