Reminding that the total reserve amount has increased to 405 billion cubic meters with the new natural gas discovery in the Black Sea, Prof. Mehmet Efe Biresselioğlu, Head of Division of Sustainable Energy, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), said, "If, in line with the data provided by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas is produced annually in the Sakarya Gas Field, according to the 2019 annual consumption amount, 22 percent of Turkey's natural gas demand will be able to be provided from this reservoir for about 40 years."