Turkey is set to lay the first pipes of the pipeline network that will transport the natural gas it had discovered in the Black Sea, as it aims to begin pumping the gas at the beginning of 2023.
After crossing through the Çanakkale Strait, also known as the Dardanelles, the Saipem pipelay vessel Castoro 10 on Tuesday arrived in Filyos port in the northern Black Sea province of Zonguldak to begin the work of laying pipelines for Turkey’s Sakarya field.
Located some 150 kilometers (93 miles) off the coast of Turkey in the Black Sea, the gas field is home to the country’s largest-ever natural gas discovery. Its Fatih drillship discovered 540 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas there in August 2020.
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