The technical and engineering staff of the Iraqi Drilling Company completed the first coring operation in a field east of southern Baghdad in one of the wells of the Hartha Formation.
The Ministry said in a statement: The Chinese company EBS, “the operator of the field,” stated that, through the study of the oil and gas evidence of rock core samples that were extracted with high accuracy and reached 100%, indicating that this achievement will help achieve great results in developing the field, increasing production and expanding the work area, North of the field, up to the production target set by the Ministry of Oil.
The rock core is defined as: it is the pieces of rock resulting from the drilling of oil wells, whether exploratory or developmental, within a specific field./ End
Source: National Iraqi News Agency