DNO International ASA has initiated production from the first horizontal well in the Tawke field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq at a record rate of 25,000 barrels of oil a day.

The Company previously reported that the Tawke-20 well had flowed an average of 8,000 barrels a day from each of the first four of ten fractured corridors penetrated by a 600-metre horizontal section in the Cretaceous reservoir interval of the field.

Each of the remaining six corridors also flowed an average of 8,000 barrels a day. Following completion of testing, the well has been placed on production but is subject to wellbore and surface facilities limitations. Currently, the most productive vertical well in the Tawke field is flowing at an average daily rate of 10,000 barrels.

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