The Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources is purchasing a new floating production platform (FPU) from a Chinese company for its Sakarya Gas Field in the Black Sea.
Similar to the Osman Gazi Floating Production Platform, the new ship-shaped platform will be 273 meters long, 54 meters wide, and 26 meters deep. It will be anchored to the seabed in four groups with a total of 20 rope systems in an area approximately 180 kilometres offshore, where the water depth is about 2,200 meters, and will remain stationary. The platform will provide accommodation for 150 personnel.
Gas will be directly transferred to the national network
The platform will process raw natural gas from the wells on-site, performing well control, water separation, drying, compression, measurement, and similar operations. After these processes, the gas will be transported to shore via an underwater pipeline and directly transferred to the transmission network.
According to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, the new platform will increase daily natural gas production in the Black Sea to 40 million cubic meters. Currently, 9.5 million cubic meters of gas are produced daily from the field, and production will reach 20 million cubic meters per day with the Osman Gazi Floating Production Platform, which is scheduled to begin operations in mid-2026.
“A sister platform will join our Osman Gazi Floating Production Platform,” Minister Bayraktar added. “We expect our new platform, currently under construction in China, to be transported to Türkiye by the end of 2027. The platform, which we plan to commission by mid-2028, will operate in the Black Sea and enhance our production capacity. With this new platform, which brings us to Phase 3, our production at the Sakarya Gas Field will increase fourfold compared to today, reaching 40 million cubic meters per day.”