Atrush Field

Atrush Field is a Jurassic fractured carbonate oilfield near Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan.

[9] Oil began flowing through the Atrush Central Production Facility on July 3, 2017.

[3] In September 2017, an agreement for the sale of Atrush oil was signed between TAQA, its partners and the KRG.

This discount is based on the principles similar to other oil sales agreements in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

[10] In 2014 after a meeting of the Atrush Management Committee and the KRG Ministry of Natural Resources Archived 12 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine changes in terminology used with respect to activity in the Atrush Field were made:[11] Atrush-1 (AT-1) well was successfully spudded on October 5, 2010.

[14] The design of the DST Program, as well as the permanent completion, was managed by Daniel Riedel, Richard Sharpe, Damon Yarshenko, and Wes Whitman with key execution support provided by core contractors.

CK-6 encountered the Jurassic age reservoir at a higher elevation (≈139 metres) than the nearby AT-3 well.

[16] Chiya Khere-7 (CK-7) appraisal and development well drilling operations commenced prior to September 19, 2017.

The objectives are to add another producing well by appraising the Mus formation's commercial potential and to reduce the uncertainty in determining the depth of the medium to the heavy oil transition zone.

The well is expected to reach the 1,575 metre Total Depth within 52 days, using the Romfor 25 drilling rig.

[19] Chiya Khere-11 (CK-11) is a deviated infill production well, located on the Chamanke-G pad, that was spud on 3 January 2019, the Sargelu formation is the target.

[22] CK-12 was drilled to its final depth at the end of May 19, 2019, where the reservoir was found to be 25 metres deeper than the prognosis indicated.

The equipment will provide 5,000 barrels (790 m3) of oil per day additional processing capacity at the Chamanke C pad, where AT-3 is located.

[23] The well reached TD on May 20, 2022,[24] and was completed over the Sarki reservoir in July 2022 and water disposal also commenced in July 2022[25] The drilling and completion, on time and under budget, of a side-track CK-17 well (from Pad A) to recover from the upper Jurassic Sargelu reservoir was spud on April 1, 2021.

[27] According to a post on Linkedin.com by TAQA's Drilling and Completions Manager during the week of September 6, 2022, CK-18 (Pad G) successfully reached TD as the first horizontal well in the Atrush block.

Targeting the Upper Jurassic Sargelu formation, the well is forecast to commence production in Q1 2023.

[34] As of September 29, 2017, the facility has achieved a regular daily export of more than 22,000 barrels (3,500 m3) of oil equivalent.

[10] Facility production is expected to increase to 30,000 barrels (4,800 m3) of oil equivalent per day during 2017.

[10] In June 2018 Shamaran Petroleum reported a partial blockage of the production facility's heat exchanger.

Water injection at the wellhead will continue while gradually increasing production as the field personnel closely monitor the facility.

[41] 2019 and forward data without specific citations were generated using software to evaluate published charts.

TAQA's Atrush Field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Atrush Field from space with the block boundary in red, taken September 4, 2018, by the European Space Agency - ESA produced from ESA remote sensing data image processed by SNAP Desktop 6.0.3