Exploration & Production
Anatolia Energy Spuds Guvenir-1 Well On Dadas/Turkey Shale License
Anatolia Energy Corp. is pleased to announce that its partner, Çalık Enerji San. ve Tic. AŞ. (“Calik”), has commenced drilling at Guvenir-1, the initial exploration well on the Antep Licence in Turkey, where Anatolia holds a 50% interest.
Guvenir-1 will be the first well to target the Dadas Shale on the 845,418 gross acre (422,709 net acres) Antep Licence where our independent third party resource evaluator, Ryder Scott, has allocated 318 MMBbls (159 MMBbls net) of unrisked prospective resources (June 11, 2012 news release).
Drilling of the well is expected to take approximately 80 days to reach a total depth of approximately 8,500 feet (2,600 meters). The Company plans to extract core samples from the Dadas Shale in Guvenir-1 which will be analyzed in a specialized core laboratory in…
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