Bashneft International BV has discovered an oil field named Salman on Block 12 in southwestern Iraq, parent Rosneft reported last month.
The discovery well, which Rosneft called the first exploratory well on the block, went to 4,277 m. No other details were reported.
Block 12 covers 7,680 sq km in an unexplored area of the Arabian Plate about 80 km south of As-Samawah and 130 km west of Nasiriyah.
