Chia Surkh-10, the first of five wells being drilled in Kurdistan by the company this year, had flowed oil at a rate of up to 11,950 barrels per day and gas at 15 million cubic feet per day during its first test earlier this month.
The Anglo-Turkish independent then carried out a second test over a 12-metre zone in a younger Miocene section, resulting in sustained flow rates of 3200 bpd of oil and 8.2