By John Lee. Iraq's Oil Minister, Ihssan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, has announced the start of experimental operations at the Yamamah reservoir in the West Qurna 2 oil field, with the aim of increasing output from the reservoir from 10,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 350,000 bpd. When fully implemented, the development would bring total production at […]
Russian oil company Lukoil has commenced drilling of new production wells at West Qurna-2 field as part of the second development phase. The company has so far concluded contracts to drill 57 production wells, including 54 wells at Mishrif formation and 3 wells at Yamama formation. The drilling campaign will ramp up production at West […]
By John Lee. In a statement to the markets this morning, Dragon Oil gave the following update on its operations at Block 9 in Iraq: "In 2014, the partners in Block 9 in Iraq (Dragon Oil 30%) announced the discovery of oil in two formations in the consortium's first exploration well, Faihaa-1. "Open and cased […]
By John Lee. In its Interim Management Statement this morning, Dragon Oil gave the following update on its operations at Block 9 in Iraq: "In 2014, the partners in Block 9 in Iraq, announced the discovery of oil in two formations in the consortium's first exploration well, Faihaa-1 in which Dragon Oil holds 30 percent. […]
