Dragon Oil plc, an international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, today publishes an update on the drilling activity in Cheleken Contract Area, Turkmenistan, and its exploration assets in the fourth quarter of 2014 and production numbers for 2014 and December 2014.
Turkmenistan
Since the previous quarterly drilling update on 10 October 2014, Dragon Oil has completed four wells in the Dzheitune (Lam) field.
In 2014, Dragon Oil completed a total of 14 development and appraisal wells: 13 in the Dzheitune (Lam) field and one in the Dzhygalybeg (Zhdanov) field.
The Neptune rig is currently drilling the Dzheitune (Lam) C/198 development well; the Elima jack-up rig is drilling the Dzheitune (Lam) 13/199 well and Land Rig 2 is drilling the Dzhygalybeg (Zhdanov) A/102 well.
Four drilling rigs are now operational in the Cheleken Contract Area with the Caspian Driller expected to commence operations later in 1Q 2015.