New oil well drilled in Nasiriyah field

Baghdad-INA
The Ministry of Oil announced on Monday, the completion of the drilling of a new oil well in the Nasiriyah field.

The ministry stated, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the technical and engineering personnel of the Iraqi Drilling Company have completed drilling the oil well Nasiriyah / 61 at a depth of 2096 meters in the Nasiriyah oil field, and it is the fifteenth well that the company is completing within the contract concluded with an oil company with Dhi Qar to drill 20 oil wells in cooperation with the Weatherford Company to provide oil services.”
 
The statement added, "The drilling operations were carried out using the IDC44 drilling rig with a horsepower capacity of 1000 horsepower."