Drilling a new oil well in Nasiriyah oil field completed

BAGHDAD-INA

The Iraqi Drilling Company announced Thursday the completion of drilling a new oil well in the Nasiriyah oil field.

 The company's general manager, Basem Abdul Karim Nasser, said, in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the company's staff completed drilling the first well within the contract concluded with the Dhi Qar Oil Company to drill 20 oil wells in the Nasiriyah oil field in cooperation with the Weatherford Company, in order to provide oil Services," noting that "drilling operations were carried out using the IDC 44 drilling rig."

 He explained, "The company has allocated four modern devices to implement this project with a time period of 18 months," stressing that "the company owns 43 drilling and reclamation rigs ranging in capacity from 500 to 3000 horsepower distributed in the Iraqi oil fields."