First gas from Turkiye's Sakarya flows today

The ceremony of pumping the first gas from the Sakarya field to the gas processing plant in Filyos will take place today at 20:23 local time.

Black Sea gas, which will reduce foreign dependency on energy and contribute significantly to the economy of Turkiye, which imports approximately 60 billion cubic meters of gas annually, will be processed at the TPAO Filyos facility. It is aimed to deliver domestic gas to homes in the first half of May.

Some five of the ten wells planned within the scope of Phase-1 will be commissioned after today's ceremony, and the remaining five wells will be commissioned at the end of September. With the transition to Phase-2 production in 2026, daily gas production will reach 40 million cubic meters and 60 million cubic meters in Phase-3. In Phase-2, it is aimed to meet all the needs of the houses in Turkiye with domestic gas.

Sakarya gas field

Sakarya is estimated to hold 540 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas reserves. The largest of them is Sakarya (more than 400 billion cubic meters). At the initial stage, this field is expected to produce about 10 million cubic meters of gas per day, or from 3.4 billion to 4 billion per year. By 2028, the volume of daily production should be 40 million cubic meters (15 billion cubic meters per year).