ShaMaran Petroleum Corp., Vancouver, has commissioned a 25,000 bo/d production plant and the start of oil export via pipeline in Sarsang block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
ShaMaran Petroleum Corp., Vancouver, has commissioned a 25,000 bo/d production plant and the start of oil export via pipeline in Sarsang block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Production is expected to exceed 20,000 bo/d by end-October.
The 420-sq km onshore Sarsang block, in the Zagros fold and thrust belt of northern Kurdistan, is on the northern border of ShaMaran’s Atrush block is comprised of two producing oil fields: Swara Tika and East Swara Tika. Each field contains three independent Triassic oil reservoirs.