Baku, Azerbaijan, July 20
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has received a license for oil and gas exploration, the Ministry of energy and natural resources of Turkey told Trend July 20.
The Ministry noted that, the license has been issued for oil and gas exploration in the province of Diyarbakir and Hakkari, on the territory with a total area of 65,500 hectares.
"TPAO appealed to the Ministry of energy and natural resources in December 2017 in order to obtain a license for oil and gas exploration in these provinces," the Ministry stated.
The law permitting oil exploration in forests and national parks came into force in Turkey in April 2014.
According to the report of the ministry, a total of 56 wells have been drilled within the framework of exploration of new oil and gas fields in Turkey since 2014, of which 54 are onshore, and two are offshore.
Around 1,863 exploration work was carried out in Turkey to search for new oil and gas fields as of late 2017.
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