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Turkish authorities announced on Tuesday that a drilling ship is to conduct explorations in the sea area south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo in the southeastern Aegean. Ankara, which disputes that the island has a continental shelf and its...

According to reports published on Tuesday by Turkey's Daily Sabah newspaper and many Cypriot media outlets, the Turkish drillship ''Yavuz'' has begun operations off the coast of Cyprus' peninsula of Karpasia in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The reports also suggest that...

Turkey will send a fourth ship to the eastern Mediterranean to conduct seismic research for oil and gas around Cyprus, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Tuesday. Turkey currently has three ships around Cyprus, including two drilling ships. A Turkish...

Turkey's second drillship, Yavuz, will begin drilling for oil and natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean within a week, Fatih Dönmez, Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, has told news agency Anadolu. Yavuz is currently at the port of...

Turkey will be dispatching a second drillship to the eastern Mediterranean in the middle of this month, the country’s energy minister said on Monday. Fatih Donmez said the drillship, called the ‘Yavuz’, currently stationed in the Sea of Marmara, would...

Turkey will send a second drillship to the Eastern Mediterranean, the country’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday, as tensions over exploration rights off Cyprus continue to escalate. He said that seismic exploration has been completed, and the time...

The Cyprus government announced Friday that ExxonMobil has started drilling at an offshore oilfield inside the island’s exclusive economic zone. Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis made the announcement in Nicosia during a meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy...

A drilling vessel leased by ExxonMobil has arrived in Cyprus' offshore block 10 and is preparing to drill into the seabed soon, the country's energy minister announced on Monday. Giorgos Lakkotrypis said that the Stena Icemax vessel had arrived on schedule at...

The Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ said on Thursday, that the prospect of negotiating a two-state solution, could be on the horizon as an option in the near future. In a statement, the ‘ministry’ said the planned hydrocarbon drilling by the...