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THE GEOPOLITICS OF TURKEY’S NEW NATURAL GAS DISCOVERY IN THE BLACK SEA

January 13, 2022 ARTICLES, Energy Market, Featured, important 0

‌‌Becoming one of the countries with richest energy resources, Turkey can easily meet its domestic needs and play the role of Europe’s natural energy bridge as the European Union is one of the world’s top energy consumer. The discovery of new natural gas resources by Turkey in the Black Sea, …

Is Turkey’s New Gas Discovery in the Black Sea a Game Changer?

September 17, 2020 ARTICLES 0

In mid-August, Turkey officially announced the discovery of a massive, 320-billion-cubic-meter (bcm) natural gas field in the Black Sea, in an exploration zone called “Tuna-1” (TRT World, August 21). The news was met with some skepticism from energy experts, notably in the Middle East (Arab News, August 24). Yet, if …

Umud Shokri is a Washington-based senior foreign policy and energy geopolitics advisor and author of US Energy Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea Basin: Changing Trends Since 2001.
He has served as a visiting research scholar at the Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP),
an initiative of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and is
an advisor at Gulf State Analytics (GSA), a Washington-based geopolitical risk consultancy.
Umud holds a Ph.D. in International Relations. He comes with extensive expertise and
professional experience in global energy market studies, energy security, the geopolitics of
climate change, industrial policy for clean energy, as well as foreign policy in the context of
climate change and energy transition. His primary research interests lie in energy diplomacy and
energy transition, U.S. energy policy, the geopolitics of energy, Iran-Turkey relations, as well as Iran-Russia relations, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia and the GCC.