Trillion Energy Moves Ahead With Cudi-Gabar Oil Block in Türkiye

By Bosphorus News Energy Desk

Trillion Energy has advanced its M47 oil block program in southeast Türkiye with a second earn-in payment and preparations for new seismic work in the Cudi-Gabar petroleum region.

The Canada-based company said it made an additional $250,000 payment under its farm-in agreement for the M47c,d oil block. The payment follows an earlier $250,000 installment announced in May and brings Trillion's total earn-in payments for the block to $500,000.

The company is seeking to earn a 29 percent participating interest in the M47 concession, a roughly 450-square-kilometer block in southeast Türkiye. Trillion said the latest payment will count toward its work program obligations under the definitive farm-in agreement.

The M47 block sits in the Cudi-Gabar petroleum region, one of the most closely watched areas in Türkiye's domestic oil drive. Trillion says the block is located about 11 kilometers southeast of the Şehit Aybüke Yalçın oil field, where Türkiye has expanded production in recent years.

The company said it is now preparing a new seismic program at M47. Existing seismic data covers only about a quarter of the block, and Trillion says the new work could identify four to six additional drilling locations.

The announcement does not mark a new discovery or immediate production increase. It is an early-stage exploration and development step by a foreign junior energy company seeking exposure to Türkiye's growing southeast oil play.

Türkiye's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry has presented Gabar as a central part of the country's domestic oil strategy. The ministry said in December 2025 that daily production in Gabar had risen above 81,000 barrels, while previous official statements placed the medium-term target at 100,000 barrels per day.

Trillion's M47 program is therefore moving inside a larger official push to raise domestic crude output, reduce import dependence and expand infrastructure in a region that Ankara now treats as a strategic energy zone.

The company has also pointed to earlier technical work on the block, including an independent resource evaluation and past well data from the Çetinkaya area. Those figures remain company-side estimates and depend on seismic results, drilling decisions, reservoir performance and regulatory approvals.

The next stage will be the seismic program. That work will show whether Trillion can move M47 from an investor-facing opportunity into a more concrete drilling campaign in southeast Türkiye.