TURKEY - TPAO & Its Fields.

TPAO has more than 45 oilfields producing in four south-eastern districts - Siirt, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep and Adana. From 1994 to mid-1998, the state-owned company found about 2-3 fields every year.

TPAO was established in 1954, when it took over from the State Minerals Exploration

From the second half of 1998 TPAO's exploration efforts in Turkey have not resulted in oil discoveries of consequence. Since then, its production has exceeded its reserves discoveries by far. In 1996, TPAO added 18 new wells to its oil production system and their output during that year totalled over 1.33 million barrels. They included the Bozova structure in the Adiyaman axis of fields, which the company discovered earlier in that year. In 1997, the company added 12 new wells which during that year produced almost 900,000 barrels. During those two years, over 20 old wells were abandoned. Now, the number of active wells in TPAO's production system is about 627, compared to about 620 in early 1998 and 509 by end-1995. In 1996 and 1997, TPAO drilled more than 45 exploration and appraisal wells with a cumulative depth of more than 55,000 metres. The company made five oil and gas discoveries during those two years.

                      MAIN OIL & GAS FIELDS IN TURKEY

Field     Operator    Dscvry  Nature    API      Wells  Rsrvoir  Depth (ft)

Petroleum District 10 - Siirt
 Raman      TPAO       1945     O    18.8 deg.     8      UC    4,500
 Garzan     TPAO       1951     O    25 deg.       1      UC    4,700
 Germik     TPAO       1958     O    19 deg.      10      UC    6,500
 Kurtalan   TPAO       1961     O    33.2 deg.     1      UC    5,750
 Magrip     TPAO       1961     O    18.4 deg.    10      UC    5,700
 Raman W.   TPAO       1961     O    13.3 deg.    96      UC    4,200
 Silivanka  TPAO       1962     O    21-25 deg.    8      UC    8,200
 Celikli    TPAO       1964     O    35.2 deg.    11      UC    10,500
 Selmo    (Mobil) TPAO 1964     O    34.4 deg.    20      Pa    5,800
 Malahermo  TPAO       1965     O    33           susp.   UC    n.a.
 Dodan      TPAO