Agência Brasil*
Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and the Turkish state-owned oil company (Türkýye Petrollerý Anoným Ortaklidi) signed yesterday (17) two contracts for the export and production of oil in deep waters in the Black Sea.
According to a statement disclosed by a spokesperson for the state-owned company, the companies will be partners in two blocs in the fields of Kirklarelli and Sinop, where there are possibilities for exports of great volumes of hydrocarbons.
The first bloc is based in the Western sector of the Black Sea, at an average depth of 1,200 metres. And the second, in the Eastern sector, at a depth of 2,200 metres.
Petrobras also informs, in the statement, that the Turkish region of the Black Sea is still little explored, although it presents perspectives of good results: "Turkey is a country surrounded by important productive basins and its territory is cut by a large network of oil and gas pipelines that supply Europe."
*Translated by Mark Ament
