Qara 8 gas well put into services to support electric power stations

Damascus, SANA-Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources put Qara 8 gas well into service with a production capacity of nearly 150 thousand cubic meters per day.

The new quantity of production is set to support the electric power stations.

According to a statement for the Petroleum Ministry, the depth of the well reached 3513 meter and work has started on May 20^th, 2019 and the end of excavation process was on April 29^th,2020.

“The new well will be subjected to permanent evaluation operations in order to increase its production in the coming period and the produced quantity will be directly shifted to Qara station then to the general network of gas which feed electricity power stations,” Director of the Central region fields told SANA.

Mazen Eyon