Monday, February 28, 2011

Turkey: Top Mardin carbonate yields heavy oil - Oil & Gas Journal

"Turkey: Top Mardin carbonate yields heavy oil

Feb 28, 2011

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Feb. 28 – The Altinakar-1 well on License 2674 in the Karakilise area of Turkey has drillstem tested 11-13° gravity oil from a carbonate zone near the top of the Cretaceous Mardin Group, said Valeura Energy Inc., Calgary.

The well produced 88 bbl of oil, 52 bbl of drilling mud, and no water in 11 hr of swabbing and flowing operations from a 6-m open hole interval at 1,557-63 m. "

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