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Oil plans to drill 12 exploratory wells to estimate the size of the reserve
14/12/2011
After a hiatus of more than 20 years
Basrah - Saad Samak
said the Ministry of Oil said it plans to drill 12 exploratory wells national effort to estimate the formations and the size of stockpiling oil in specific areas as a prelude to invest in increased production, as announced the Iraqi Drilling Company on the completion of more than 50 percent of the work drilling the first exploration well in the field of Dima in Maysan province, and that after the cessation of exploratory drilling in Iraq for more than twenty years.
An official source at the Oil Ministry in a statement to the "morning" that there was a project will be implemented by the Iraqi Drilling Company for oil exploration is to drill 12 wells deep abyss up to 4500 m in certain areas, adding that the project being implemented by national effort and in stages includes the drilling of wells across the country to explore and learn stockpiling reserves, pointing out that "the drilling company have enough equipment that was purchased last year and a capacity exceeding those depths and is one of the few companies competent to work in the field of exploration, reclamation and drilling depths are different. "
On the other hand, the Director of the Iraqi Drilling Company oil expert Idriss Mohsen Yasiri, completed more than 50 percent of drilling the first exploration well in the field of Dima in Maysan province depth estimated at about 4200 m below the surface of the earth, and after more than twenty years since the cessation of exploration in Iraq. and said Yasiri that the first quarter of next year will see the completion of work in the well, hoping that this project will be "good omen" for the operations of other exploratory to find out stockpiling and composition of oil in new areas adds increases in the size of the reserve of the country.
It is worth mentioning that the drilling company had signed a contract to drill 23 wells and reclamation of 63 wells in the Zubair field in favor of Italy's Eni worth more than $ 200 million and the duration of the completion of two years. The company is also preparing to sign new contracts with oil companies licenses in the fields of Basra, in addition to signing the contracts for the drilling of wells in the provinces of Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar and Kirkuk.
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