TURKEY
 
Turkey Plays Down ‘Bonanza’ Shale Gas Talk
 
Selami İncedalcı, the general director of Petroleum Affairs at the Turkish Ministry of Energy, has played down exaggerated reports about Turkey’s potential reserves of shale gas. This comes in the wake of US Geological Survey’s 2011 estimate that the country may have 425 trillion cubic feet of unconventional shale gas. Several local experts have stoked the ongoing public debate with even...