drilling

Turkey will carry out its first hydrocarbon drilling in the Mediterranean later this year and its first deep drilling in 2018, Energy Minister Berat Albayrak stated on Oct. 11. Albayrak said Turkey aimed to open wells in Turkish and Cypriot...

Energy minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis was briefed on initial findings from drilling by a consortium of France’s Total and Italy’s Eni in block 11 in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone on Friday and will in turn brief the House Commerce committee...

US Energy giant ExxonMobil announced on Wednesday it will carry out two exploratory drillings in block 10 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the second half of 2018. ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum (QP) acquired an exploration concession for block...

With three consecutive nautical safety warnings, known as NAVTEX, Turkey announced naval exercises and research missions in the south-eastern Aegean and at four plots of the Cyprus EEZ. As daily Kathimerini reports, with NAVTEX 710/17, Ankara announced a three-day research...

The Cypriot government announced on Monday that the natural gas exploration was going as planned, with results expected in the autumn. “What I can tell you with certainty is that everything is going as planned,” government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides told...

The Cypriot government has called for calmness and has played down tensions with Turkey over the drilling for natural gas dispute in the eastern Mediterranean. Nicosia’s plea comes at a day when, according to reports, Turkey has sent its seismic...

Turkey has sent a frigate to monitor the West Capella ship that is thought to have started drilling activities to search for oil and gas off Cyprus, the Turkish military said in a statement on Thursday. The Turkish Armed Forces...

Exploratory drilling is set to take place in block 11 of Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the first two weeks of July, a top Total official said, on Thursday. Eleanor Rowley, Total's VP of Exploration, MENA region, was addressing...