SOCAR started drilling of a new well on Neft Dashlary
The drilling company of SOCAR has starts drilling of a new well on the Neft Dashlary field, reads SOCAR’s web site.
The well No 2156 is being drilled from the platform No 2150. The target depth totals 1,640 meters. The well will be drilled to the productive bed Nadkirmakinskaya Peschanaya Svita.
According to the geologists’ forecasts, the expected production rate of the well is 10 tons of oil a day.
Neft Dashlary field was discovered in November 1949, but its development started since the end of 1952.—0—
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