Türkiye has discovered 57 million barrels of oil reserves valued at approximately $4 billion across several regions so far this year, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday.
Speaking during Anadolu's Editors’ Desk in the capital Ankara, Bayraktar said the discoveries were made in Diyarbakir, Gabar and Batman.
Diyarbakir alone holds an estimated 4 to 6 million barrels of shale oil and shale gas, Bayraktar added.
Bayraktar also said that recent exploration efforts in natural gas and oil resulted in the discovery of 75 billion cubic meters of gas at the Goktepe-3 well in the Black Sea, enough to meet Türkiye's gas needs for about 1.5 years.
Bayraktar noted that onshore exploration is ongoing with new discoveries and said the figures are likely to rise by the end of the year.
By Handan Kazanci
Anadolu Agency
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