By John Lee. Norway's DNO ASA has announced a major scaling-up of operations in the Kurdistan Region after surpassing 500 million barrels of cumulative oil production from the Tawke licence, where it holds a 75 percent operating stake. Drilling will resume next week after a 2.5-year spending pause, beginning with a new production well in the […]
DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, today announced half-year 2017 revenues were up 43 percent from the same period last year following regular export payments in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Free cash flow jumped four-fold to USD 157 million on operated production of 114,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) during […]
DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, today announced a third consecutive quarter of operating profits and the completion of the first phase of the 2016-2017 drilling campaign at the Company's flagship Tawke field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Four new production wells at Tawke, three of which targeted the shallow Jeribe reservoir […]
By John Lee. Shares in DNO, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, closed up more than 10 percent on Wednesday as the company announced the startup of an active drilling program at its flagship Tawke field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The company said it will boost investments on the back of seven consecutive […]
By John Lee. WesternZagros Resources has, subsequent to its declarations of commerciality and submissions of development plans, and in accordance with its accounting policies, completed an independent evaluation and a new independent audit of its light oil discovery on the Garmian block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The evaluation has, for the first time, […]
By John Lee. WesternZagros Resources has announced that it has started its latest Garmian Block drilling program in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Mil Qasim Upper Bakhtiari-1 well was spudded on May 19, 2013. This is the first of a planned three-well program to test the potential of the shallow Upper Bakhtiari Formation. With […]
WesternZagros Resources has announced that it has successfully completed the initial testing of the oil discovery made in the Jeribe Formation of the Sarqala-1 well. The Company tested the well at rates up to 9,444 barrels per day of 40 degrees API oil. This rate was reached after flowing and stabilizing the well at progressively […]
Shares in WesternZagros Resources are up 35% on Tuesday following the company's announcement of an oil discovery in the Jeribe Formation at the Sarqala-1 exploration well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The cpmpany says the Jeribe Formation flowed light, 40 degrees API oil at a stabilized rate of 6,000 barrels per day over the […]
WesternZagros Resources has begun drilling the planned sidetrack in the Sarqala-1 well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Company intends to drill a 100 metre sidetrack from the cased wellbore to test the Jeribe reservoir. Results from the drilling and testing program are anticipated in mid April, 2011. The Company originally drilled Sarqala-1 in […]
WesternZagros Resources has announced that Sproule International has completed an independent audit of the Company's resource assessment of: the Tertiary Eocene and Cretaceous reservoir intervals of Kurdamir-1; the Jeribe reservoir at Sarqala-1; and the Upper Fars reservoir at Mil Qasim in the Kalar-Bawanoor Block ("Block K44"). This audit, together with the previous audit results of […]
