October 9 (SeeNews) - Turkey's deputy energy and natural resources minister Alparslan Bayraktar said the country plans to expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage capacity with a third floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) that will be commissioned in 2021, local media reported.
The new unit, named Ertugrul Gazi, will operate in the Gulf of Saros in northwestern Turkey, Daily Sabah quoted Bayraktar as saying on Thursday.
The unit has a capacity to store 170,000 cubic metres of LNG, whereas its gas capacity is 102 million standard cubic meters. The vessel has a regasification capacity of 28 million standard cubic meters, according to the report.
The country's two other FSRU units are located in the Aliaga district of western Izmir and the Dortyol district of the Hatay province in southern Turkey.
In August, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that its Fatih drillship discovered in the Black Sea its biggest-ever natural gas field holding estimated reserves of 320 billion cubic metres.