Natural Resources

The oil production facilities in the Gabar Mountain region of Şırnak broke the record in the history of the Turkish Republic with a daily production of 40,000 barrels.

"Today is an important day in the history of Türkiye," Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said in a statement on April 11.

A Turkish vessel has commenced drilling a new well in the Black Sea, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has announced, expressing optimism about discovering a new reserve within the next few weeks.

The daily oil production from the Gabar field in Türkiye's southeast will increase from the current 37,000 barrels to 40,000 barrels at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said.

Total oil reserves in the Gabar region in the Şırnak province is 1 billion barrels, he said at a public gathering in Istanbul.

Search teams have reached the pickup truck used by the miners trapped beneath the soil before the landslide hit the mining site in the eastern province of Erzincan, forming the first trace found over a month after the incident.

An investigation bureau on mining accident-related crimes has been established in the northern province of Zonguldak, where Türkiye's paramount coal mines are situated, marking a pioneering initiative in the country.

Some 35 million cubic meters of soil will be displaced to reach nine missing miners in the landslide-hit gold mine in the eastern province of Erzincan amid the prosecutor's office's ongoing investigation.

Search teams have detected the locations of the nine missing workers who got trapped in the landslide-hit gold mine in the eastern province of Erzincan, with six of them believed to be at a spot different from the remaining three, the energy minister has informed.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to the United Arab Emirates and Egypt on historic visits both for regional and bilateral reasons amid the continued Israeli massacres against the Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

A bill submitted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) paves the way for establishing floating photovoltaics (FPV) on natural and artificial lakes as well as the country's seas.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar paid a visit to the Azerbaijani capital Baku on the weekend to discuss cooperation in energy and the prospects of renewable energy projects.

Bayraktar held what he described as "very productive meetings" with his Azeri counterpart, Parviz Shahbazov, and Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov.