The drilling ship "Abdulhamid Khan" will go out to the Mediterranean in the coming days,[/B] the director of the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPAO), Melih Khan Bilgin, revealed.
Under the headline : "Abdulhamid Khan prepares for the Mediterranean", the Hurriyet newspaper is airing Bilgin's statements at a conference on Energy held in Turkey.
According to the director of TPAO, the drillship is being prepared at the port of Tasuzhou and will go out to the Mediterranean Sea for surveys in the near future : "in every corner of the Blue Homeland" as he said.
He made it known that the schedule for the work of the "Abdulhamid Khan", which will be carried out with new modern techniques, has already been drawn up, but without revealing the points where the floating drilling vessel will move and whether they concern areas that Greece and Cyprus strongly object to.
Last August, as announced by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan himself, the Abdulhamid Khan moved to work on the Yörükler-1 plot in Antalya Bay and within the Turkish continental shelf.
The question remains whether Ankara will send the Abdulhamid Khan to work in areas of interest to Greece and Cyprus, directly contesting part of the Greek or Cypriot EEZ, thus intensifying the confrontation with Athens and Nicosia.
Last summer, the Turkish president called the "Abdulhamid Khan" a symbol of Ankara in the energy sector. As he stated : "Turkey, has a rare drilling fleet in the world, with the Fatih, Kanuni, Yavuz and Abdul Hamid Khan ships."
Source: Proto Thema
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