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The drillship Abdulhamid Khan will be ready to serve in the Mediterranean again, the Director General of the Turkish state oil company TPAO, Melih Khan Bilgin, said, but said that this time it will be salt exploration.
"We continue exploration in every corner of the Blue Homeland. We are doing what the plan calls for," he said.
Speaking at the 12th Energy Summit in Turkey, Melih Khan Bilgin said that after completing maintenance work on the drilling vessel Abdulhamid Khan, they plan to return to the Mediterranean to take up new duties.
"In fact, we have planned step by step, where and what we will do week by week and we are implementing what the plan dictates."
He said the Abdulhamid Khan has anchored off the port of Tassuchu for maintenance work. "The preparations are almost complete. In the next few days she will raise anchor again.It is planned as the next duty point will be the Mediterranean," Bilgin said.
He said they are doing surveys in the Mediterranean region with a new concept. That they are conducting salt exploration and will turn again to deeper targets for salt infrastructure. He added that salt can be found as a layer under the sea floor and that experts said that sometimes there can be gas between these salt layers
Source: CNA
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