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Fri, 09/23/2011 - 21:28
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Turkey's oil exploration vessel to set sail
ANKARA (A.A) - September 23, 2011 - Turkey's oil exploration vessel named after worldwide famous Ottoman captain, geographer and cartographer Piri Reis, is expected to set sail towards the Mediterranean later on Friday.
The vessel will carry ten people including a geological engineer and a geophysics engineer with the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO). It is able to carry out two-dimension seismic surveys for 20 days.
A few years ago, the vessel was used in a two-dimension seismic survey in the Turkish territorial waters in the Mediterranean Sea.
Built in Julius Diedrich shipyard in Germany in 1978, the vessel currently anchored at Izmir Port.
Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said yesterday that they would intensify and prioritize their projects regarding the Mediterranean and Piri Reis would set sail on Friday.
Earlier this week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Dervis Eroglu of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) signed in New York an agreement on the delineation of the continental shelf between two countries in the East Mediterranean following a Greek Cypriot move to start offshore drilling for natural gas and oil in the southeast of the Eastern Mediterranean island.
The deal gives Turkey the green light to search oil and gas inside the Turkish Cypriot waters.
Turkey said it would send a vessel to the region to launch own research this week, adding the ship would be escorted by Turkish warships.
In 2010, the Greek Cypriot administration and Israel signed an accord demarcating their maritime borders to facilitate a search for mineral deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The Greek Cypriot administration has recently begin oil and natural gas exploration and drilling.
The Greek Cypriot side had signed a deal with U.S.-based Noble Energy to start drilling in an 324,000-hectare economic zone adjacent to the Israeli waters.
The vessel will carry ten people including a geological engineer and a geophysics engineer with the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO). It is able to carry out two-dimension seismic surveys for 20 days.
A few years ago, the vessel was used in a two-dimension seismic survey in the Turkish territorial waters in the Mediterranean Sea.
Built in Julius Diedrich shipyard in Germany in 1978, the vessel currently anchored at Izmir Port.
Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said yesterday that they would intensify and prioritize their projects regarding the Mediterranean and Piri Reis would set sail on Friday.
Earlier this week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Dervis Eroglu of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) signed in New York an agreement on the delineation of the continental shelf between two countries in the East Mediterranean following a Greek Cypriot move to start offshore drilling for natural gas and oil in the southeast of the Eastern Mediterranean island.
The deal gives Turkey the green light to search oil and gas inside the Turkish Cypriot waters.
Turkey said it would send a vessel to the region to launch own research this week, adding the ship would be escorted by Turkish warships.
In 2010, the Greek Cypriot administration and Israel signed an accord demarcating their maritime borders to facilitate a search for mineral deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The Greek Cypriot administration has recently begin oil and natural gas exploration and drilling.
The Greek Cypriot side had signed a deal with U.S.-based Noble Energy to start drilling in an 324,000-hectare economic zone adjacent to the Israeli waters.
