Poltava Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of British-based JKX Oil & Gas plc, has successfully completed drilling the third (IG142) well since the beginning of the year (Ihnativske field), having received an average daily production rate of 152,000 cubic meters of gas and 709 bpd (barrel per day) of oil and condensate, JKX reported on the London Stock Exchange’s website.
The company said such results had significantly exceeded expectations.
“This is the fourth successful new well drilled by the Ukrainian subsidiary of JKX, Poltava Petroleum Company, since the approval of the five-year development plan,” the report says.
Poltava Petroleum Company is one of the largest non-state oil and gas companies in Ukraine. It owns five extraction licenses (Rudenkivske, Ihnativske, Novomykolaivske, Molchanivske, Yelyzavetivske deposits) and one license for geological exploration (Zaplavska deposit).
JKX Oil & Gas is engaged in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons in Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, and Slovakia.
DRILLING, PETROLEUM COMPANY, POLTAVA
