{"id":120962,"date":"2026-02-15T23:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=120962"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:26:00","slug":"120962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2026\/02\/120962\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turkish government has sent an oil drilling ship off the coast of Somalia to begin oil drilling operations."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Turkish government has sent its deep-sea drilling vessel Cagri Bey to the Somali coast today, in what the Turkish energy minister said was the country\u2019s first offshore exploration mission.<\/p>\n

He described the move as a historic one that reflects Turkey\u2019s efforts in oil and gas exploration. Alparslan Bayraktar said the vessel will begin drilling the Cura\u00e7ao-1 well off the coast of Somalia in April.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time, our deep-sea drilling vessel is setting off on an operation outside our maritime borders,\u201d Bayraktar said at an event in the southern port of Mersin.<\/p>\n

The Federal Minister of Petroleum, Dahir Shire Mohamed, who was present at the ship\u2019s farewell ceremony, said that Somalia\u2019s time has come to tap its own resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis vessel, which is setting off today for Somali waters, is a hope, a future, a good omen. \u201cToday we are at the launch of the oil drilling vessel that will drill for the well that President Hassan Sheikh named Curad1,\u201d said the Somali energy minister.<\/p>\n

The Cagri Bey, which recently joined Turkey\u2019s drilling fleet, is expected to reach Somalia in about 45 days, accompanied by three Turkish naval vessels.<\/p>\n

Turkey aims to reach an output of 500,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2028, Bayraktar said, adding that Ankara hopes to double that figure through new exploration and production-sharing agreements abroad.<\/p>\n

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The Turkish government has sent its deep-sea drilling vessel Cagri Bey to the Somali coast today, in what the Turkish energy minister said was the country\u2019s first offshore exploration mission. He described the move as a historic one that reflects Turkey\u2019s efforts in oil and gas exploration. Alparslan Bayraktar said the vessel will begin drilling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhacdoyinka-caalamka","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120969,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120962\/revisions\/120969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}