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British oil company encouraged by tests at Iraq well
British explorer Heritage Oil says the Miran West well in northern Iraq has an oil reservoir of 53 to 75 million barrels
Published in Ahram Online on 05 - 10 - 2011

British explorer Heritage Oil said it was encouraged by results of tests for oil at its operations in Iraq where a major gas find announced earlier this year had been overshadowed by an apparent lack of oil.
"We are encouraged by the results of our first test in the Miran West-3 well," Chief Executive Tony Buckingham said in a statement on Wednesday. "We are drilling ahead with a view to conducting the next test in the Lower Cretaceous reservoir."
Heritage, which specialises in exploring for gas in tough frontier regions and political hot-spots, said drilling in the upper cretaceous reservoir achieved a maximum flow rate of 1,950 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and confirmed the potential for it to produce 8,000 to 10,000 bopd from each well at the reservoir.
The tests at the field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq also confirmed potential overall volumes in the Miran West structure's upper Cretaceous reservoir of 53 to 75 million barrels, Heritage said.
Shares in the company, which is currently valued at about US$900 million, slid in January when it unveiled a major gas discovery but no oil at the nearby Miran West-2 well. Gas is seen as less commercially valuable in the region given a lack of infrastructure and the resulting difficulty in getting gas out.
Heritage announced on Tuesday that it had bought control of a Benghazi-based oil services firm, striking the first upstream deal in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.


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