今天上午，土耳其国家石油公司（NOC）与土耳其石油公司（TPAO）在伊斯坦布尔签署了谅解备忘录。NOC的代表是其董事会主席马苏德·苏莱曼工程师，TPAO的代表是总经理艾哈迈德·图尔科格鲁先生。

根据该谅解备忘录，土耳其石油公司将对四个近海区域进行地质和地球物理研究。双方还商讨了开展二维地震勘探（10,000公里）并在最长九个月的时间内处理所得数据。

This morning, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) signed MoU with the Turkish Petroleum Corporation TPAO, in Istanbul. The NOC was represented by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, Eng. Masoud Suleman, and the TPAO was represented by the General Manager, Mr. Ahmet Turkoglu.

Under this MoU, Turkish Petroleum will conduct a geological and geophysical study of four offshore areas. Discussions also included conducting a two-dimensional seismic survey (10,000 km long) and processing the resulting data within a maximum period of nine months.