Roxi Petroleum PLC, operator of the 1,561 sq km BNG (Ayrshagyl) block in Kazakhstan's North Caspian basin, has spud BNG exploration well 135 on the North Yelemes structure.
Drilling time is estimated at 42 days to a projected to 2,950 m. The block consists of steppe and transition zone near the northeastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
MoroccoTransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd., Dallas, began oil sales in early January 2011 from the HR-33bis well on the company's 100% owned Teslfat license in northern Morocco's Rharb basin.
TransAtlantic is evaluating plans for 2011 in Morocco. The evaluation will be influenced by results from the HKE-1 well, under completion on the Ouezzane-Tissa exploration permits, and the GRB-1 well, drilling on the Asilah exploration permits, both in the Rif belt in northern Morocco.
TurkeyTransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd., Dallas, is awaiting the availability of coiled tubing units to clean out and install tubing in the Kepirtepe-1 and Habiller-2R wells in the Thrace basin of Turkey.
The company fractured stimulated the two wells in the Oligocene Mezardere and Eocene Hamitabat formations in the fourth quarter of 2010 and said it was pleased with how the jobs were pumped (OGJ, Oct. 4, 2010, p. 56).
Once it cleans out the wells and runs tubing, the company should be in a position to flow the wells for an extended period. TransAtlantic expects to move towards multistage fracture stimulation jobs and commercial production in 2011.
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