Al-Fayha field expects to increase production capacity to 100 thousand barrels per day

Economy
  • 12-07-2024, 19:38
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    Baghdad-INA  
    The management of Al-Fayhaa border oil field expected, on Friday, to increase production capacity to 100,000 barrels per day during next August.
     
    The field director, Muhammad Taher, said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): that “The field shares a border with Iran, and the current production has reached 80,000 barrels per day, and it is hoped that the capacity will increase to 100,000 barrels per day next August.”
    Taher added, “The field consists of two buffer banks, bank A and bank B, each bank having 50 thousand barrels per day, and that the number of wells in the field has reached 43 wells, 36 wells in production, and a well for water injection that is experimental, and the others are reclamation wells that are not yet connected to the station.”
    He stressed that “the project to stop burning gas will be completed by the end of this year, and that the gas processing capacity is 130 mqm per day,” noting that “the field produces two lines of liquid and dry gas and that the production capacity of liquid gas has reached approximately 1100-1480 tons per day, and production dry gas is about 98 mm,” noting that “the total area of the field is 865 square kilometers.”