MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc., the operator reports the spudding of the Gulak-1 exploration well on the Akri-Bijeel block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Gulak-1 is the fourth exploration well to be drilled on the Akri-Bijeel block and the first exploration well to target the Gulak anticline at the extreme eastern end of the block.

The well is being drilled 21.4 km to the east from the Bijell-1 discovery well and 28.3 km to the east-southeast from the Bijell-3 (Aqra-1) appraisal well, which is also drilling ahead.

Gulak-1 will target prospective intervals in the Jurassic and Triassic drilling to a planned total depth of approximately 3,658 metres in the Triassic Kurra Chine formation.

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