Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 18 / Trend A. Badalova /
Drilling operations have reached 1,301,832 meters in Kazakhstan in January-August 2011 compared to 1,301,692 meters during the same period of last year, the Central Dispatching Department of the Kazakh Statistics Agency told Trend.
The target of drilling operations was fulfilled by 103.9 percent in August 2011. Drilling activities made up 183,542 meters compared to 109,566 meters drilled in August 2010. The drilling target was 176,617 meters.
The exploratory drilling operations were fulfilled by 101.3 percent in August 2011. Thus, 37,037 meters were drilled against the target of 36,535 meters.