Turkish Petroleum Corporation (, TPAO) has been established in order to perform hydrocarbon exploration, drilling, production, refinery and marketing activities on behalf of the Republic of Türkiye with the Law No. 6327 in 1954.
TPAO contributed to the establishment of several companies in Turkey's petroleum industry, including PETKİM, TÜPRAŞ, BOTAŞ and Petrol Ofisi.
TPAO continued exploration, production, refining, marketing and transportation activities until 1983 as an integrated oil company. TPAO has been acting as a publicly owned exploration and production oil company since the legal regulations made in 1983 and some other more recent changes.
TPAO’s primary goal is to reduce Turkey’s oil and gas import.
Exploration
In 2013, the company purchased the seismographic research/survey vessel RV Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa worth US$130 million for gas and oil field exploration in Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Fleet +NameBuilt byTypeGenerationAcquiredNoteBarbaros Hayreddin Paşa PolarcusSeismic research vessel-2013MTA Oruç Reis İstanbul Naval ShipyardSeismic research vessel2017Fatih Hyundai Heavy IndustriesUltra deepwater drillshipSixth2017Yavuz Samsung Heavy IndustriesUltra deepwater drillshipSixth2018Kanuni Samsung Heavy IndustriesUltra deepwater drillshipSixth2020Abdülhamid Han Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine EngineeringUltra deepwater drillshipSeventh2021Osman Gazi Hyundai Heavy IndustriesFloating production storage and offloading-2025
Projects
Azerbaijan:
Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field (5.73% stake) Shah Deniz gas field (19% stake) Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan Pipeline (6.53% stake) South Caucasus Pipeline (9% stake) Alov exploration project (10% stake)
Iraq:
Badra oil field (10% stake) Missan oil fields (11.25% stake) Siba gas field (40% stake) Mansuriya gas field (37.5% stake; operator) BP Energy Company of Kirkuk Limited (15% stake), which holds interests in the Kirkuk oil fields.
Russia:
BaiTex LLC (49% stake), holder of the hydrocarbon licences for the Baituganskoye field and Yerilkinsky block in the Volga–Ural region.
Finance In 2019, TPAO made an operating loss of 239 thousand lira for each of its 3,700 employees.
References
External links
Company website