The Ber Bahr block covers an area of 280 km² and lies to the north-west and on trend with the Shaikan and the Sheikh Adi blocks. Gulf Keystone has a 40 per cent working interest in the Ber Bahr block operated by Genel Energy, which holds a 40 per cent working interest in the block. The Kurdistan Regional Government has a 20 per cent carried interest in the Ber Bahr Production Sharing Contract.
The Operator's resource estimate for the Ber Bahr block is 1.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent-initially-in-place.
Ber Bahr-1, the first exploration well on the block spudded in October 2011.
