• Zion Oil & Gas began field operations for a planned sidetrack phase at the Megiddo-Jezreel #2 well in Israel.
• Work includes re-entering the well, drilling out a temporary plug, conditioning the wellbore, then starting horizontal sidetrack drilling.
• The drilling rig was recertified, recommissioned, then renamed JB-1 in honor of founder John Brown.

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