Platts: Turkey's TPAO and ExxonMobil in talks on shale gas

TPAO, Turkey's state-owned upstream operator, is in talks with ExxonMobil over a possible joint venture to investigate the potential of the country's shale gas reserves, an energy ministry official told Platts Wednesday.

The talks cover possible reserves in Turkey's European province of Thrace and in the country's southeast, said the official who was unable to confirm what stage the discussions had reached.

In 2011, TPAO signed a joint venture with Shell to prospect the huge Dadas shale formation in the Diyarbakir region of southeast Turkey.

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