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Article: TURKEY - Turkey's Political Boundaries & Geology.
- Article from:
- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- April 21, 2008
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Turkey straddles the oil-rich Middle East and the energy hungry EU. South-Eastern Turkey forms the northern flank of the Arabian Basin, and lies adjacent to the major oilfield belt of Iraq, Iran and Syria. Only about 1,470 exploration and appraisal wells have been drilled in the whole Turkey since 1961. The Turkish portion of the Arabian Basin is less explored with fewer wells per acre drilled than in the rest of the Arabian Basin.
Turkey is divided into 18 Petroleum Districts and has two main hydrocarbon producing fairways: oil basins in the south-east, where many fields have been on stream since the 1950s; and gas-prone areas in the Thrace-Gallipoli Basin, on ...