DNO to Resume Drilling at Tawke Field, Targeting 25% Production Boost

Iraq-Business News

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The Norwegian oil company DNO announced on Thursday that it will resume drilling new wells after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, aiming to increase oil production at the Tawke field in Duhok Governorate, in the Kurdistan Region, by 25%. The company confirmed that two drilling rigs have already been deployed to the field for this purpose.

In its statement, DNO said it has produced 500 million barrels of oil from the Tawke field since beginning operations there.

The company explained that it will begin drilling eight new wells in 2026, which will raise production by 25%, bringing daily output to 100,000 barrels of oil from the Tawke field.

Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, Executive Chairman of DNO, said: “After two decades of working in one of the most complex oil fields, we believe we can extract even more oil from this field, which covers the Tawke and Peshkhabur concessions.”

He added: “Although we did not drill any oil wells in 2023 after the oil export pipeline was shut down, we were able to produce 80,000 barrels of oil per day from our fields in the Kurdistan Region.”


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