President Erdoğan emphasized the importance of the Osman Gazi platform in the history of energy in the video message he sent to the ceremony at Filyos Port.
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Osman Gazi Floating Production Platform is a facility commissioned within the scope of Türkiye's natural gas exploration and production activities in the Black Sea.
In the video message he sent to the "Osman Gazi Floating Production Platform Farewell Ceremony" held at Filyos Port in Zonguldak, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that he prayed to God that the Osman Gazi Floating Production Platform, decorated with the colors of the red flag, would provide beneficial services to the country and nation.
Reminding that they announced that they would bring the first floating production platform to Türkiye in July 2024, and that they sent off the platform, which they named "Osman Gazi", from Dolmabahçe Palace to Filyos in May last year, Erdoğan said, "Today, we are opening a brand new page in our energy history. We are sending Osman Gazi, which is literally a floating industrial facility, to its place of duty, to the Black Sea. Osman Gazi said that our vision of the Turkish Century is in the seas." "It is the first factory of the 'blue homeland'," he said.
President Erdoğan stated that Osman Gazi is a floating energy castle with a length of 298.5 meters, a width of 56 meters, a depth of 29.5 meters and 140 personnel, and said:

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