Turkey

Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.

Straddling Europe and Asia, the Black Sea is emerging as a frontier for deepwater gas exploration and production as Romania and Turkey drive projects complicated by subsea hazards found nowhere else on earth.

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth urges more optimistic and balanced conversations regarding the energy transition.

As Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29, JPT looks back at how the country prospered for millennia on its largess of oil and gas and its unique geography along the ancient Silk Road that today is traversed by pipelines delivering gas and oil to Europe from the depths of the Caspian Sea.

This paper describes dynamic reservoir characterization considerations, challenges, and engineering solutions used to derisk field-development decisions confirmed by a well-testing campaign in a complex setting.

This paper describes the application of learnings from an offshore project in the Caspian to an underground gas storage project to enhance drilling performance.

The next phase of drilling is expected to resume in mid-2024 and includes several sidetrack wells, long-reach directional wells, and stratigraphic exploration wells.

The Black Sea is where Turkey shares maritime borders not only with Russia and Ukraine, but also with EU nations such as Romania. Its significance is evolving, both regionally and globally.

New well northwest of Cizre strikes 162 m of light oil pay.

The contracts are for work in the Black Sea and North Sea.