BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 5
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
Since 2008 Italy’s Eni company has spent around $2 billion for operations in Burun Field, Nebit Dag Area, Turkmenistan, the company told Trend.
“Main activity has been focusing on production optimization, with a massive number of wells drilled and worked over. The extremely complex field structure (multilayer and block compartmentalization) calls for a sophisticated geo-seismic reconstruction and an important number of wells, and recompletion of the same,” said Eni.
The company said step-outs to peripheral areas has implied the discovery of yet undrained oil bearing blocks, after several years from production start-up. “Water injection and artificial lifting have been implemented as well, allowing for production maximization.”
Eni said it increased further the production optimization activity in 2019, by adding the third drilling rig, a TurkmenNeft owned rig, thus contributing to the Local Content development.
Eni is present in Turkmenistan since 2008 through acquisition of Burren Energy and becoming a sole Operator under the Nebit Dag PSA.
PSA Area is located onshore, 35 km south of Balkanabat and includes Burun and Balkan (Nebitdag) fields.
In 2014 Nebit-Dag PSA was extended till 2032 with 10% Contractor share passed to SC Turkmennebit. Since the start of the project in 1996 the total oil production is about 18 million tonnes. Current daily production at the level of ca. 2,000 tonnes of oil per day.
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