Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, together with Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar, made inspections at Filyos Natural Gas Processing Facility and Filyos Port. Before the inspection tour, the two ministers were briefed on both the processing facility and the port.
Minister of Transport Uraloğlu, in his written statement regarding the inspection tour, said, “We examined the railway and road connections of Filyos Port with our Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Alparslan Bayraktar. Filyos Port, a giant logistics center project that will take our country further and take it to a leading position in its sector; "It will be able to serve large tonnage ships with its 13 and 25 meter deep docks, with an annual capacity of 14 million tons that can handle 19 ships." he said.
Minister Uraloğlu reminded that the dock and rear area construction at Filyos Port, which is a 'giant logistics center' project that will take both the region and Turkey one step further, was completed and put into service with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 04.06.2021, and said that He stated that there is a 2 thousand 450 meter main and 370 14 meter secondary jetty, and that there are two docks in total of 19 thousand meters, one of which is XNUMX meters deep and the other is XNUMX meters deep. Minister Uraloğlu noted that the infrastructure construction of the port was carried out with public resources and that a decision was taken to carry out the superstructure equipment supply and operation with the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model.
On the other hand, Minister Uraloğlu, who also gave information about the Filyos Port Junction Line Connection, reminded that it was prepared in 12, before the Sakarya Gas Field Project, when the TPAO General Directorate had not started to be present in the region, with 4,5 kilometers of railway and 2019 kilometers of highway. Minister Uraloğlu stated that discussions were held with TPAO General Directorate within the framework of the current actual situation with the emergence of the gas discovered in the Black Sea, and stated that the 'Revised Line Design Report', which includes a revised route design, was prepared by the consultant company.
Minister Uraloğlu stated that TPAO General Directorate was asked for an opinion in an official letter regarding the renewed project route, and stated that the region in question should be declared as a special security zone in order to carry out the logistics activities for the delivery of natural gas to the land safely and quickly, and due to the strategic importance of the area of activity, Filyos Port Railway He stated that the project regarding the planning of the project has been suspended.
THE TARGET FOR BLACK SEA GAS IS 15 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar, who inspected Filyos Natural Gas Processing Facility and Filyoz Port together with Minister Uraloğlu, stated in his statement that they have dug 23 wells in the Sakarya Gas Field so far and said, “Our production has reached 2,7 million cubic meters. "We aim to increase this production to 10 million cubic meters as soon as possible and ultimately to 40 million cubic meters and to supply natural gas to 15 million households from here." he said.
