Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 15

12-April-2010

IRAQ

Heritage To Drill Deeper With Miran West-2 Well

British independent Heritage Oil has said that it will need to drill deeper with the Miran West-2 appraisal well in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq, after initial tests failed to see hydrocarbons flow tested to the surface. The well was spudded in November and drilled to a depth of 2,627ms, encountering hydrocarbon bearing intervals over 1,800ms within Cretaceous formations....