TÜRKİYE’S BLACK SEA DISCOVERY AND REGIONAL ASPECTS

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Global energy demand has been rising rapidly since the beginning of the 1900s. In this context, the trend towards energy types has changed over time due to mainly supply security and CO2 emission concerns and technology-cost alterations. Oil, which has become the most important energy source with the beginning of the 19th century, gradually leaves its throne to natural gas (which we can partially describe as cleaner), especially within the scope of carbon mitigation targets. As expressed in the long-term global demand projections prepared by TESPAM, although great progress will be made in the field of renewable and clean energy, socioeconomic and technological factors reveal that the era of oil and natural gas (even coal), will not be ended in such a short time. In this context, as can be seen in the graphs below, natural gas will emerge as the most important resource of the future.