Workers operate at the Tawke and Peshkabir fields in Kurdistan’s Duhok province. (Photo: Archive) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Crude oil production is on the rise at fields in the Duhok province area with results exceeding expectations, the Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Natural Resources said in a statement on Sunday. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has expressed its satisfaction with the work of the Tawke Production Sharing Contract (PCS) workers in the Peshkabir area, located northwest of Duhok. “Production [at Peshkabir] has risen to over 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) within 18 months, exceeding expectations,” the MNR statement read. The Ministry also noted that “the recent boost in production at the Peshkabir area has more than compensated for the natural decline of the main Tawke field area.” Crude production at Tawke is now down to about 80,000 bpd compared to 109,000 bpd in July 2017, the statement said. The current average of production under the Tawke PSC License, however, has increased to 130,000 bpd compared to 114,000 bpd in July 2017, the MNR added. It also announced the recent completion of a pipeline upgrade to its export pipeline “by installing another pumping […]
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