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DRILLING UNITS OF SOCAR CARRY OUT DRILLING OF 37 WELLS

Oil&Gas Materials 8 October 2005 13:58 (UTC +04:00)

At present the drilling units of Azneft PA of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, is involved in drilling 37 wells in different onshore and offshore fields of Azerbaijan.

Three of them are exploration and the rest are production wells. This year the SOCAR plans to carry out drilling and commission 80 exploitation wells. They are mainly oil wells. The key objective of drilling is to support the stabilization of oil and gas production.

At present the drilling of the exploitation wells is carried out in the fields Gunashli, Hovsan, Gum-Deniz, Bahar, Palchig Pilpilesi, Gurgan-Deniz, Bulla-Deniz, 8 March, Alat-Daniz, Bibi-Heybat, Balakhani, Lokbatan, Kalmaz, Karadag, Surakhani, Gushkhana, Siyazan-Nardaran. The drilling of new wells is also carried out in Darvin Bankasi areas. The exploration wells are spudded in Shurabad, North Naphtalan, West Absheron.

The SOCAR said that since the beginning of the year the Oil and Gas Producing Units (OGPU) of Azneft, put into exploitation over 50 new wells, which exceeded the target by 5 wells.

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