GKP cheers another Kurdish find

London-listed Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) has made another oil find in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, immediately west of the Shaikan discovery that was declared ‘commercial’ earlier this year.

Shaikan well: an oil discovery made on the Sheikh Adi Block in Iraqi Kurdistan is said to indicate similar oil gravity as the adjacent commercial discovery, Shaikan

Danica Newnham

Published 8 November 2012, 08:25Updated 11 October 2016, 10:59