The
granting
of
the
61,561-acre
West
Molla
exploration
licence
takes
the
company's
contiguous
acreage
in
the
region
to
around
160,000
acres,
all
of
which
it
believes
is
prospective
in
the
Mardin,
Bedinan
and
Dadas
shale
formations.
TransAtlantic
Petroleum
plans
to
acquire
300
kilometres
of
2D
seismic
and
to
drill
an
exploration
well
on
the
new
license,
most
likely
to
test
the
Bedinan
formation,
in
the
first
year.
Hamilton,
Bermuda-registered,
Toronto-
and
New
York-listed
TransAtlantic
Petroleum
is
an
international
explorer
with
interests
in
developed
and
undeveloped
properties
in
Turkey,
Bulgaria
and
Romania.
In
January,
the…