MEOG: Iraq’s IDC provides drilling update

Iraq’s Ministry of Oil (MoO) this week announced that its drilling subsidiary, the Iraqi Drilling Co. (IDC), drilled or reclaimed 86 wells throughout the country during the first half of 2023.

IDC director-general Khaled Hamza said that “The company has achieved the drilling of the 24th well in the [Majnoon oil] field at a depth of 3,079 metres in co-operation with Halliburton,” as part of a contract covering a 43-well drilling campaign awarded to the two companies by the state-owned Basra Oil Co. (BOC).

In May, Oil Minister Hayyan Abdulghani inaugurated an experimental water injection project at Majnoon, noting that the project would yield 80,000 barrels per day (bpd). “The river water is used for injection and temporary treatment of four main wells in different reservoirs such as Zubair, Al-Mushrif and Al-Hartha,” he said, adding that the project would “contribute to sustaining and increasing oil production from the field.”

The Iraqi News Agency reported: “The project is one of the important projects to maintain oil pressures in the field’s wells to maintain the current level of production […] “groundwater is very important to compensate for the extracted quantities of oil and gas associated with crude oil in this field.”