Tag Archives | drilling

IDC Completes Directional Oil Well for Basra Oil Company

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has accomplished the drilling of the directional oil well MJ-159 in collaboration with Halliburton, as part of the project to drill 42 oil wells in the Majnoon Oilfield for Basra Oil Company (BOC). Mr. Muhannad Maki Tarash, the Director of the First Operations Department at the company, […]

IDC Completes New Wells at Zubair and Fakka

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed the drilling of two oil wells in the Zubair and Fakka [Jabal Fauqi] oil fields. The ZB-608 oil well in the Zubair oil field reached a depth of 3,598 meters using the 1,500-horsepower IDC 38 drilling rig. This is part of the contract with […]

IDC Completes New Oil Well at Al-Zubair Oil Field

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed the drilling of the new oil well at Zubair oil field in Basra. Well Zubair/607 was drilled to a depth of 3,533 meters in 36 days. This achievement is part of a contract with the Italian company ENI to drill 37 oil wells at […]

IDC Rehabilitates Two Oil Wells in Kirkuk

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed the rehabilitation of two oil wells in the Khubaz and Jambour oil fields in Kirkuk. The rehabilitation of Khubaz Well 43, using the IDC 206 drilling rig, marks the company's first well rehabilitation as part of a project to rehabilitate nine wells  for the […]

IDC Drills 3,636-Meter Oil Well at East Baghdad Field

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed the drilling of the EBSH-54 oil well at the East Baghdad field. The well was drilled to a depth of 3,636 meters, as part of a contract with EBS Petroleum to drill 27 oil wells at the field in collaboration with China Oilfield Services […]

New Oil Well Drilled at Zubair

By John Lee. In Iraq's Zubair oil field, technical and engineering teams from the Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) have successfully completed the drilling of a new oil well, Zubair/563, reaching a depth of 3538 meters. This achievement is part of a contract signed with the Italian company ENI to drill 37 oil wells in the […]

ADNOC L&S to enter Iraqi Market

By John Lee. ADNOC Logistics and Services plc (ADNOC L&S), has taken delivery of eight self-propelled jack-up barges (JUBs) through its subsidiary Zakher Marine International (ZMI) Holdings. In a statement to the markets on Monday, it said that one of the barges will serve the Iraqi market, "marking ADNOC L&S' entry into a new market […]

New Well Completed at Nasiriya Oil Field

By John Lee. Iraqi drilling experts at the Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) have successfully completed the drilling of oil well 61, reaching a depth of 2096 meters in the Nasiriya oil field. This achievement marks the fifteenth well completed by the company under the contract signed with Dhi Qar Oil Company (DQOC) to drill a […]

Chinese Firm Wins $194m Drilling Contract in Iraq

By John Lee. A subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has reportedly won an engineering, procurement and construction contract worth $194 million to drill wells at Iraq's Rumaila oilfield. According to Channel News Asia, the contract was awarded to Daqing Drilling Engineering Company, which has been active at the field since 2010. More here. […]

Drilling Completed at Nasiriyah Oil Well 60

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed drilling operations for the Nasiriyah-60 oil well in Dhi Qar province. The well, reaching a depth of 2,110 meters, is part of the "Mushrif [Mishrif] Formation", and the project is a contract with the Dhi Qar Oil Company (DQOC). The project entails drilling 20 […]

IDC Completes 86 Oil Wells in the First Half of 2023

By John Lee. Khalid Hamza, the General Manager of the Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC), has said the company has completed the drilling or development of 86 oil wells in the first half of 2023. This included the successful completion of the 24th well in the Majnoon oil field, reaching a depth of 3,079 meters, in […]

Successful First Coring Op in East Baghdad Field

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully conducted the first coring operation in the Southern part of the East Baghdad Field, specifically in the Hartha Formation. EBS Petroleum, the Chinese field operator, reported that through the detailed analysis of the oil and gas evidence from the core samples, achieving a 100% success […]