The Moscow-headquartered state oil player said that its BD4appraisal well had successfully completed well testing with a daily naturalflow rate of 7000 barrels of oil from six horizons.

Testing continues at two other drilled wells within the samefield ahead of six production wells to be drilled with China’s ZPEC.

First deputy chief executive Vadim Yakovlev said that saidthat large-scale production at Badra would begin “as early as this year” onlythree years since “since beginning development, practically from scratch”.

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