Duo cheer Kurdish flows

Kurdish pay: Hunt and Afren have flowed oil and gas from the Simrit-2 well

US company Hunt Oil and UK-listed partner Afren Petroleum have flowed oil from the Simrit-2 well on the Ain Sifni Block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Afren said drill stem tests had been successfully carried out over the Jurassic Mus, Adiayah and Butmah formations which yielded incremental flow rates of 5368 barrels of 21 degree API oil per day.

The pair had previously carried out tests on three other zones in the well which flowed at an aggregate of 13,584 bpd.

When taking in to account the three latest drill stem tests, the  Simrit-2 well has so far achieved aggregate flow rates of 18,952 bpd, along with 23.9 million cubic feet of gas per day.

Afren said the remaining testing…

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