Nasiriyah News Network / Alaa al:
Authority announced the fields of the province of Dhi Qar, the Malaysian oil company Petronas, which leads a consortium to develop an oil field north of the province Gharraf, finished digging the first well in the field, according to a new technology developed, and is preparing to drill another two wells before the end of the year.
The Director of the cream Yasser Nasiriyah News Network The technical staffs in the company Petronas to continue the excavation work and is preparing to drill two wells after the arrival of other more specialized equipment and towers, digging wells, likely of the three wells completed before the end of the year.
He explained that drilling operations conducted by the American Ford company Odhir contracting with a company Petronas, where they are drilling, according to the technique of horizontal drilling, a new technology, developed and used for the first time in Iraq.
And that the company performed well as the many events associated with drilling operations, such as completing the construction of camps for accommodation and the work of the cadres of the company.
The rate of production of the oil field Gharraf initial estimated at 35 thousand barrels per day to be up later to more than 50 thousand barrels per day.
Includes Nasiriyah oil fields untapped field of Nasiriyah great, which is expected to produce 300 thousand barrels per day and a field Gharraf which is estimated to estimates involved in matters of oil production by 130 thousand barrels per day, as well as field Mesopotamia (Abu-column), estimated production in the event of operation or investment of 110 thousand barrels per day and there are a lot of undiscovered oil fields and close to the fields listed with an estimated oil reserve in the province almost six billion barrels.
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