Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 16 / Trend A. Badalova /
Drilling operations amounted to 1,482,212 meters in Kazakhstan in January-September 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 drilling operations were fulfilled by 99.1 percent in September 2011. Some 180,380 meters were drilled compared to 155,521 meters drilled in September 2010. The drilling target was 181,970 meters.
The exploratory drilling operations were fulfilled by 94.1 percent in September 2011 by drilling 10,010 meters. The exploratory drilling target was 42,515 meters.