Turkey needs partners to extract methane hydrate

Turkey plans to be the second state after Japan to extract natural gas from methane hydrates in the Black Sea, Trend cites Turkish Minister for Energy Taner Yildiz.

Turkey is rich with methane hydrates but needs equipment and technologies to extract the resources. It wants to minimize dependence on imported energy carriers and has intensified searches for oil and gas. Turkey discovered high-quality oil fields in Kurtalan of the Siirt Province.

Adapted from Vestnik Kavkaza