{"id":443098,"date":"2025-06-15T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=443098"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:31:00","slug":"somalia-concludes-first-phase-of-offshore-oil-exploration-with-turkish-tpao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somalia-concludes-first-phase-of-offshore-oil-exploration-with-turkish-tpao\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Concludes First Phase of Offshore Oil Exploration with Turkish TPAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The Federal Government of Somalia has officially announced the completion of the first phase of offshore oil and mineral exploration along parts of the Somali coastline, conducted in partnership with T\u00fcrkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortakl\u0131\u011f\u0131 (TPAO).<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources confirmed that the 234-day survey, carried out by the Turkish research vessel Oru\u00e7 Reis, gathered extensive seismic data. The findings will help assess the quantity and potential of offshore oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a Production Sharing Agreement between Somalia and TPAO, the project aligns with the government\u2019s commitment to transparency and national development. The Ministry emphasized that future updates will be shared with the public once the collected data is fully analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry also thanked the Turkish Ministry of Energy for its cooperation and acknowledged the leadership of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre in advancing the country\u2019s resource development strategy.<\/p>\n<p>This milestone signals Somalia\u2019s intent to responsibly utilize its natural resources to boost economic growth and improve livelihoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The Federal Government of Somalia has officially announced the completion of the first phase of offshore oil and mineral exploration along parts of the Somali coastline, conducted in partnership with T\u00fcrkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortakl\u0131\u011f\u0131 (TPAO). The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources confirmed that the 234-day survey, carried out by the Turkish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":438089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-443098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443101,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443098\/revisions\/443101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}