Black Sea gas: floating plant Osman Gazi heads for Turkey's Sakarya field
The Turkish production platform has left the port of Filyos. Erdoğan says Black Sea gas output will double to 20 million cubic metres a day, with production starting in early 2027.
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The floating gas processing plant Osman Gazi has left the Turkish port of Filyos and is on its way to the Sakarya gas field in the Turkish part of the Black Sea, the Bulgarian daily Sega reports. Its departure had been announced a few days ago; the unit is now heading to its work site in open water.
The platform is 298.5 metres long, 56 metres wide and 29.5 metres high. It has 21 production units and its own power generation, a crew of 140 and a design life of 20 years. On site it will be connected to the wells, extract and dry the gas, and send it ashore through a pipeline more than 160 kilometres long.
First flaring is expected at the end of 2026, with production due to start in early 2027. "We are opening a new page in our energy history," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said at the send-off. He said Black Sea output would double to 20 million cubic metres a day and that from 2027 one in three households in Turkey would use domestic gas.