Oil Industry
| Name | Discovered | Production started in |
Reserves (million bbl) |
Production (bbl/day, 2007) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batı Kozluca | 1978 | 1980 | 138 | 1500 |
| Batı Raman | 1961 | 1962 | 1850 | 7000 |
| Dinçer | 1988 | 1990 | 55 | 400 |
| Garzan | 1951 | 1956 | 163 | 1700 |
| İkiztepe | 1988 | 1990 | 53 | 400 |
| Raman | 1940 | 1947 | 400 | 4000 |
Search for oil in the Batman Province was started in 1935. On 20 April 1940, oil was found at a depth of 1048 meters at the Raman oil field, south-east of Batman, nearby the city. The first experimental well started producing 10 tonnes (about 62 barrels) per day from 6 June 1940. The field was expanded for commercial production by 1945, but the production was delayed to 1947 by the lack of storage. A small refinery was built at the site with a capacity of 9 tonnes/day by 1947 and by November 1948 a bigger refinery capable of processing up to 200 tonnes/day was built in Batman. Even bigger refinery (330 tonnes/d) was built in Batman by 1955. Several other oil fields were later discovered in the province with the Batı Raman oil field, which produces about 7,000 barrels daily, being the largest oil field in Turkey. A 511 km long oil pipeline was brought in 1967 from Batman to the port city of Dörtyol near the easternmost point of the Mediterranean coast to transport the Batman crude oil. The pipeline has an annual capacity of 3.5 million tonnes and was transporting about 20 million barrels (about 2.7 million tonnes) in the 1990s and about twice less between 2003 and 2007. Another, short (41 km) pipeline connected Batman with Şelmo – the location of the second largest oil field in Turkey. It was transferring between 1.5 and 0.5 million barrels per year in the period 1990–2007. Both pipelines are operated by BOTAŞ.
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