February 17, 2017
It’s like being in the Midland, but with better financial terms – TransAtlantic discusses its operations in Turkey
The last nine years have been marked by explosive growth in the North American oil and gas sector, but many companies continue to exploit hydrocarbon resources successfully in other parts of the world as well. TransAtlantic Petroleum (ticker: TAT) is one such company, with operations in Turkey, Albania and Bulgaria, and some of the well results reported by the company have outperformed those in some of the most prolific plays in the United States.
“These are high net-revenue, large contiguous lease blocks at the center of a petroleum basin, which would be similar to being in the center of the Midland Basin,” TransAtlantic Chairman and CEO Malone Mitchell III told Oil & Gas 360® speaking about the company’s assets in Turkey.
December 30, 2016 12:02 ET
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Dec. 30, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:TNP) (NYSE-MKT:TAT) (the “Company” or “TransAtlantic”) today announced that it has received key governmental approval for the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Thrace Basin Natural Gas (Turkiye) Corporation (“TBNG”), and provided an operations update.
Update on TBNG Sale
On December 30, 2016, the Company received the required approval from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey (the “Ministry”) for the sale of TBNG to Valeura Energy Netherlands B.V. (“Valeura”). This approval is a key closing condition for the Company’s sale of TBNG. Concurrent with its acquisition of TBNG, and as a further closing condition, Valeura will sell its current 40% participating interest in the deep rights on certain of its Turkish joint venture lands to Statoil Banarli Turkey B.V. (“Statoil”). Valeura has also received approval from the Ministry for this sale to Statoil.
