Drilling News in Iraq
| 5/11/2012 - Gulf Keystone is pleased to announce that the Bakrman-1 exploration well spudded on the Akri-Bijeel block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 7 May 2012. ... |
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5/2/2012 - US oil giant company ExxonMobil Corporation has signed a contract with the Iraq drilling company, a state run co., to drill 20 oil wells in west Qurna-1 oil field in Basra, south of Iraq. On the sidel... |
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4/24/2012 - LUKOIL started production drilling and construction of a key production facility, namely a Central Processing Facility, at the West Qurna-2 field in Iraq . Abdel Karim al-Luaibi, the Iraqi Oil Ministe... |
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12/20/2011 - Gulf Keystone is pleased to announce that the Shaikan-6 appraisal well has spudded on the Shaikan block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 16th December 2011. ... |
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12/20/2011 - Iraq awarded a three-year contract valued at $640 million to U.S. service oil company Baker Hughes to drill 60 wells in Iraq's southern Zubair oilfield, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said. Italy... |
| 11/25/2011 - The drilling of the first appraisal well in the Iraqi Badra oil deposit, operated by Gazprom Neft, commenced. The depth of the appraisal well will reach 4,900m. Drilling is expected to be completed in... |
| 11/14/2011 - Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (GKP) and Petroceltic International Plc (PCI) led share gains among explorers operating in Kurdistan after the regional government was said to agree on drilling contracts ... |
| 10/26/2011 - Russia’s private oil company Lukoil announced that it started drilling operations in the West Qurna-2 oil field near the Iraqi port city of Basra. ... |
| 9/2/2011 - The production figures include crude oil consumed in the operation of the Company’s production facilities, at an accumulated WI volume of 166 bopd in July 2011. The gross exported crude oil from Tawke... |
| 8/29/2011 - WesternZagros Resources Ltd. has started drilling operations at the Mil Qasim-1 well on the Garmian Block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Mil Qasim-1 is located three kilometers to the southeast of t... |
| 8/8/2011 - Heritage Oil Plc, an independent upstream exploration and production company, announces that it has commenced drilling the Miran West-3 well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Kurdistan). ... |
| 8/8/2011 - LUKOIL has awarded Baker Hughes a two-year contract to provide full drilling and completion services for 23 wells in the West Qurna field in southeast Iraq, 50 kms (31 miles) west of Basra. Under the ... |
| 8/5/2011 - Drilling of the Summail-1 well commenced on 19 April. As previously reported an open hole test (DST) was undertaken at the top of the Cretaceous interval, and the well flowed 4 million standard cubic ... |
| 8/2/2011 - WesternZagros Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has finalized an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) and Talisman (Block K44) B.V. (Talisman) to amend the origin... |
| 7/27/2011 - Nabors Industries Ltd is banking on oil and gas drilling in Saudi Arabia and Iraq to underpin growth next year, but the world's largest land-rig contractor faces especially tough obstacles in Iraq. Ge... |
| 6/20/2011 - Following a tender, Gazprom Neft has chosen Schlumberger to drill the first wells in the Badra oil deposit development project in Iraq. Upon signing the contract will last for three-years. On 9 June, ... |
| 6/13/2011 - Sterling, the independent oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the Middle East and Africa, provides the following update for the Sterling operated Sangaw North block in Kur... |
| 5/27/2011 - Gulf Keystone is pleased to announce that the Shaikan-4 Deep Appraisal Well has spudded on the Shaikan block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. ... |
| 5/24/2011 - Italy's ENI is stepping up work in Iraq's Zubair oilfield despite ageing facilities there and plans to drill about 68 new oil wells through next year to increase production, Iraqi officials said. ... |
| 5/24/2011 - Vast Exploration Inc. is pleased to provide the following update on the Niko Resources Ltd. (Niko Resources) operated Qara Dagh Block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. ... |
