Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. has installed and stimulated an open-hole completion system in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, the company said in a news release.

This is the first well in northern Iraqi fields for Packers Plus to use the company’s StackFRAC HD system.

All stages were successfully stimulated with acid, with clear pressure indications of packers setting, balls landing and sleeves shifting, the release said.

Use of the open-hole method provided numerous benefits, including isolation between all the zones, optimal fluid placement, maximized reservoir coverage and time and cost savings, Packers Plus said. It also eliminated the need for coiled tubing.

In addition, the system allowed for a continuous pumping operation and immediate flow back, putting the well on production without the need to mill plugs, Packers Plus said.