TEKIRDAG, March 8 (A.A) - Energy and Natural Resources Minister Zeki Cakan said on Friday that the country has to benefit well from natural gas, adding natural gas is the light of civilization.
Cakan opened Gocerler Natural Gas Site built by Turkish Petroleum Inc. (TPAO) and Australian oil and natural gas search company Amity Oil in northwestern Tekirdag province.
TPAO has 50 percent share in this partnership, said Cakan in the ceremony and noted that ''135,000 cubicmeters of natural gas will be taken from the site in a day. The reserve is 2 billion cubicmeters. We will make foreign companies to invest in Turkey. Therefore production and employment will increase in the country.''
Amity Oil company president Peter Chirc said in his part that they discovered the natural gas in the area 16 months ago, adding that ''this is a very good natural gas.''