Oil Ministry: Drilling a new oil well in Zubair field achieved

INA-  Baghdad


The Iraqi Drilling Company announced on Sunday the completion of drilling a new oil well in Zubair field.
 
The company's media office, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that "the technical and engineering staff completed the drilling of the oil well Zubair / 579 with a depth of 2472 meters within the contract concluded with the Italian company ENI to drill 37 oil wells in Zubair oil field in Basra in cooperation with Schlumberger to provide oil services, which is the fourteenth well completed by the company within this project."
 
it added that "the drilling process was carried out using the IDC 38 drilling rig with a horsepower of 1500," noting that "the device will be transferred to another site in the same field to start drilling the oil well Zubair / 566."
 
"The company owns 43 drilling rigs, including 30 modern devices ranging in capacity from (500-3,000) horsepower, whose work is distributed in the Iraqi oil fields from north to south," it said.