ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Norwegian oil and gas operator, DNO, said on Thursday that it is “revving up” operation in the Kurdistan Region, including the resumption of drilling in a flagship license in Duhok province.
“Drilling will restart at the flagship [Tawke] license next week following a two-and-a-half-year spending hiatus with the spud of a new production well targeting the shallow Jeribe reservoir in the Tawke field,” said the company in a statement.
The Kurdistan Region’s oil exports restarted in late September under a tripartite agreement between Erbil, Baghdad, and the international oil companies operating in the Region. Exports had been halted in March 2023 after Iraq won a Paris-based arbitration case against Turkey.
“Two rigs, the ‘DQE-51’ and the DNO-owned ‘Sindy’, have been mobilized to drill eight wells on the license through 2026 as the Company targets a 25 percent increase in gross operated production to 100,000 barrels of oil per day.