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.
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