OREANDA-NEWS. July 18, 2008. State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has started operation of a new well at Jafarli field in Agstafa region.

SOCAR reports that daily debit of the well #34 is 36 tons of oil. The well has depth of 3 970 m and productive strata is at the middle eocene level.

“In addition, we are going to reactivate at the field well #30 with depth of 4 010 m and finish construction of #36 with depth of 4 050 m,” SOCAR says.

The work is fulfilled by ‘Gobustan’ Exploration Drilling Division of trust “Complex Drilling Works”.

The field is situated 500 km in mountain region in west of Baku.