Norwegian oil and gas firm DNO International has upped its daily output from the Tawke field, onshore Kurdistan, by 37,000 barrels per day following the launch of two new wells.
The two horizontal drills, Tawke-21 and Tawke-22, add to the firm’s two existing and five prospective wells, bringing the total number of horizontal drills in Tawke to nine before yearend.
The field, where DNO holds a 55% interest and is the operator, is said to contain up to a billion barrels of recoverable oil.
Earlier this year the firm announced its plans to build a second Tawke pipeline, despite a fall in profits, as it is looking to increase the daily production from the field to 200,000 barrels.
“We hit a new production record of 129,000 barrels per day at the Tawke field on March 5 which is close to the limit of what we currently can deliver by pipeline and road tanker,” said Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, DNO International’s executive chairman.
“With the exceptional results from these latest wells and the installation of early production packages and a new 24-inch pipeline, we are on track to meet our ambitious deliverability goal of 200,000 barrels per day in 2014.”
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