The company has now started sales of output from the Tawke-23 hole, drilled at a cost of $12 million, after it flowed at a rate of 32,500 barrels per day on testing – beating the previous record of the first completed horizontal well, Tawke-20, that yielded 25,000 bpd.
Each of 10 independent fracture corridors penetrated by the latest well in a 950-metre horizontal section in the Cretaceous reservoir interval flowed at more than 9000 bpd, DNO said in a statement.
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