The frontier exploration drilling campaign in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia started in January 2006. LUKSAR, a joint venture between Lukoil and Aramco, took pragmatic approach to project management. Careful analysis of the campaign challenges included maximizing the local experience of service providers and proper planning to meet the drilling campaign targets. The first two wells have been drilled and tested successfully. The shortcomings of the first two wells were identified and resolved in wells three to five demonstrating significant improvement in performance.

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