Armenian Genocide subsoil and industrial losses / 1919-2015

Batman Oil Field

oil / oil field. 8.9 million barrels of crude oil and 10 Batman Oil Field southeast of Tigranakert, owned by the Turkish Petroleum Corporation. First exploited in 1950s, 8.9 million barrels of crude oil and 10.6 million sm3 natural gas were produced in 2014. It accounts for more than 50% of Turkey’s oil production, large refinery since the 1950s. An area of Neolithic settlement, historical record since 7th cent. BC, part of the as a province of Armenia in Alexander the Great's time, and thereafter in Byzantine times, through the 20th century, part of Diarbekir Villayet.

People layerArmenian
Typeeconomic-loss
Coordinates37.8874, 41.1322
Confidencecity/field coordinate; needs field-boundary review

Record dossier

Provenance, geocoding, and review state

This page is generated from the unified Genocide Atlas record layer. It preserves dataset origin, source record id, place authority, geocode method, and review status so each map object can be audited independently.

Dataset

Armenian Genocide subsoil and industrial losses

Source record

div5

Place authority

Batman

Review status

source-derived economic-loss point; verify coordinates against modern mine/field GIS before analytical use

Geocode method

controlled gazetteer from source place label

CSV path

/data/armenian-genocide/economic_losses_geocoded.csv

Geometry

Point coordinate core

Record graph

Nearby records in the evidence network

Method note

How this record entered the atlas

Extracted from the Arak29 Armenian Genocide Losses map/list via Data Catalog Armenia. Coordinates are controlled gazetteer anchors and remain flagged for mine/field footprint review.