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TPAO declares encouraging

Sakarya test results

TURKEY TURKISH Petroleum (TPAO) this week Türkali-2. That well flowed at 0.623 mcm per day,
announced the results of test flows from the first less than the 0.75 mcm per day recorded in July
reservoir section in the Türkali-1 appraisal well during a test which suggested the reservoir could
at the offshore Sakarya gas field in the western flow at around 1.2 mcm per day.
Black Sea. First gas is expected to be delivered to pro-
Making the announcement on Twitter, the cessing facilities at the port of Filyos on Turkey’s
company said it had achieved a daily flow rate of northern Zonguldak coast during 2023.
1.15mn cubic metres per day of gas, estimating TPAO has drilled six wells and is working
that Türkali-1 had the potential to produce at a on a seventh of a 10-well drilling campaign
rate of 2.7 mcm per day. designed to achieve a rate of 3.65 bcm per year
“The well flow test will continue with the next by 2023, and a further 30 wells will be drilled to
reservoir level, and the data obtained will be used reach an annual plateau of 15 bcm by 2025. Cap-
for the optimisation of the preliminary engineer- ital expenditure of around $3.2bn is believed to
ing and design studies to be completed immedi- be required to achieve first gas.
ately after the well test in the development of the In Q4 last year, TPAO awarded major con-
field,” it said. tracts for the gas field development project to
According to Ciaran Nolan, director of Nolan international services firms.
Geoscience, the test results confirm “excellent In October, US-based Schlumberger and
reservoir connectivity and deliverability”. Luxembourg-registered Subsea 7 were awarded
TPAO discovered 320bn cubic metres of gas an EPCI contract covering subsurface solutions
at the Tuna-1 well in August 2020 and this was to onshore production. Italy’s Saipem was hired
subsequently upgraded to 405 bcm two months in November to carry out transport and instal-
later and renamed Sakarya. lation (T&I) work for 175 km of pipelines to tie
In June 2021, the company announced that it Sakarya back to the Turkish mainland.
had found another 135 bcm with the Asmara-1 A week later UK-based Wood Group was
well, taking the total volume discovered so far at brought in as integrated project management
Sakarya to 540 bcm. The company noted that the consultant (PMC) for the first engineering, pro-
well flow tests are being carried out by its Kanuni curement, construction and installation (EPCI)
drillship. phase, covering EPI of the subsea production
In August, TPAO lit the first gas flare at system, gas transport pipeline and umbilical,
Sakarya and performed the first flow test at and the onshore processing facility in Filyos.™

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