ENI, Total, Statoil, Exxon Mobil, Qatar Petroleum, and Cairn's declared their interests in the tender. The call for bids, which concluded on June 22, was to award licenses for blocks 6, 8 and 10. It also announced a tender for new hydrocarbon exploration offshore the long-divided Mediterranean Island on March 24. The Greek Cypriot administration signed protocol with Egypt in August that will allow construction of a gas pipeline going underneath Mediterranean. Southern Cyprus has granted authorization for assessments in many areas of both different countries and different companies, according to Atun. "We need to make projections by looking at our onshore potential and the exploratory work that has been done, as well as offshore potential of our waters through seismic explorations," Atun said. However, Atun underlined that developments in and around the region need to be advanced. "Then, in 2014 it was decided that a well would be drilled in Guzelyurt district but the planned drilling was never realized since the project was not on the agenda of the government of that time," he noted. Turkey and the TRNC have already signed another energy agreement in 2011, in which exploration and drilling activities took place back then in the eastern part of the island. Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul, Atun said the energy protocol signed between Turkey and the TRNC on the sidelines of the congress is a framework agreement, which "includes the construction of interconnected system, mutual cooperation on renewable energy and exploration of oil and natural gas resources." Work will begin as soon as possible for the interconnected electricity cable between Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) as part of the drive for bilateral cooperation in the energy sector, TRNC Economy and Energy Minister Sunat Atun told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.
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