Anatolia Energy Corp. was awarded three new Dadas Shale prospective licenses in the Gaziantep District in southern Turkey with its partner, Çalik Enerji San. ve Tic. AS. The three license, which cover 366,990 gross acres, are adjacent to the existing Antep block.
The addition expands Anatolia's acreage position in the Antep block to 845,418 gross acres, covering what the company believes to be the entire extent of the prospective shale acreage within the Antep Basin. On June 11, the company announced it assigned a P50 gross best estimate of 318 million barrels of unrisked prospective resources in the Dadas Shale on the Antep block, excluding the three new license awards.
The company now has an interest in 11 licenses in Turkey with exposure to 1.2 million gross acres of Dadas Shale and conventional oil prospective acreage.
