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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Turkey launches campaign to explore for oil and gas off the North Cyprus




Turkish oil company launched a public (or T-PAP) on Thursday, a campaign to explore for oil and gas off the north of Cyprus after Greek Cypriots discovered a huge gas field south of the island.


And inaugurated the Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz and "President of the Republic of North Cyprus Turkish" (declared by one, which is recognized only by Ankara) Dervis Eroglu, the first well to drill near the city of Askily, where will be the company's exploration operations at a depth of three thousand square meters in four months.


He said Yildiz, "attach great importance to this work, not only as it relates to the extraction of oil and gas but also because they were of strategic importance," but he pointed out that the chances were slim to find a field of campaign exploration first, adding, "We have no ambitions of any land and the country and the freedom or the rule of one, but we We will not allow anyone to attack our rights and robbed us. "


The exploration campaign comes after the company discovered that the American Nobel in charge of the Greek Cypriot government in 2001, a field can contain up to 224 billion cubic meters of natural gas off the southern coast of the island.