Max Petroleum: Commences Drilling at Uytas North, UTS-5
Max Petroleum Plc, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Kazakhstan, is pleased to announce that it has commenced drilling the UTS – 5 exploration well in the Uytas North prospect on Block A using Zhanros Drilling’s ZJ – 20 rig. The Uytas North prospect is a four – way anticline, targeting Triassic resource potential of 11 million barrels of oil with a geological chance of success of 24%. Total vertical depth of the well will be approximately 840 metres.
After completing the UTS – 5 well it is planned that the ZJ – 20 rig will proceed to drill the UTS – 8 well in the Uytas Field, which, if successful, will extend the Western limits of the Uytas Field.