Türkiye is opening a new chapter in its energy history with the deployment of the Osman Gazi floating production platform to the Black Sea, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday in a video message.
"Today, we are opening a brand-new page in our energy history. We are sending Osman Gazi, essentially a floating industrial facility, off to its duty station in the Black Sea," Erdogan said.
He described the platform as the first production facility of the Blue Homeland, Türkiye's maritime vision under its Century of Türkiye initiative.
"Osman Gazi is the first factory of the Blue Homeland, the maritime counterpart of our Century of Türkiye vision," he said.
Equipped with 21 different units, the platform will process natural gas extracted from wells in the Sakarya Gas Field and transport it to Filyos through subsea pipelines, Erdogan said.
"Natural gas production in the Black Sea will double to 20 million cubic meters per day, and starting in 2027, one in every three households will use our domestic natural gas," he added.
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar spoke at a ceremony at Filyos Port marking the departure of the Osman Gazi floating production platform for its operational destination in the Sakarya Gas Field.
Bayraktar said the platform would increase daily gas production at the field to 20 million cubic meters in 2027, describing Osman Gazi as Türkiye's first floating natural gas processing facility.
"Our goal is to ignite the flame of the Sakarya Gas Field in Osman Gazi's flare tower before the end of this year," he said.
