On 3 August 2018 Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG) announced the completion of the operations in the Iulia 1 exploration well. Iulia 1 is situated in the XV-Midia West block about 115 km east of the coast. It was spudded on 8 May 2018 in a water depth of 73 m using the GSP âSaturnâ J/U. The well reached a total depth of 2,110 m in mid-June 2018. The Upper Pontian objective was dry and the well was plugged and abandoned.    The block includes the Ana and Doina fields. The Ana (previously named Doina Sister) and Doina fields are located about 105 km from the coast. The Doina field was discovered in 1995 while the Ana field was discovered in 2007. Both are located along the same fault trend with the same reservoir horizon in the Dacian to Recent Series (Dacian to Holocene) below 766 m.   Interest in the XV-Midia West block is divided between Black Sea Oil & Gas SRL (65% + operator), Petro Ventures Europe BV (20%) and Gas Plus International BV (15%).
Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG) announced the completion of the operations in the Iulia 1 exploration well. Iulia 1 is situated in the XV-Midia West block about 115 km east of the coast. It was spudded on 8 May 2018 in a water depth of 73 m using the GSP âSaturnâ J/U. The well reached a total depth of 2,110 m in mid-June 2018. The Upper Pontian objective was dry and the well was plugged and abandoned.