The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) told Trend that the drilling rig Khazar-4 was continuing drilling the third well with the project depth of 800 meters in the West Absheron field. The drilling rig has already reached the point at 348 meters. The rig is expected to drill 12 pre-drilling wells. After the completion of drilling, they will be conserved for further production from the platform.
At the meeting of the Absheronneft Oil and Gas Production Unit, Azneft made a resolution on West Absheron field development program. The program also includes the improvement and construction of new platforms.
The first platform was established for connecting three drilled gas wells. They were drilled and conserved. The approximate debit of the well is 250,000 cu m a day. It will enable to transfer to new methods of production gas lifting, as well as gas for domestic demand. This is the primary tasks.
It is planned to construct platforms for exploitation of wells with this semi-submersible drilling rig Khazar-4. The rig will drill 12 wells instead of 6, as it was planned earlier, due to the great reserves and capacity of the stratums. The average daily debit comprises approximately of 10 tons a day.
It is also planned to continue exploration drilling in this field with Absheron drilling rig. At present the business plan includes drilling of two wells.
The appraisal of fields revealed over 10mln tons of oil. The re-appraisal of reserves was carried out after the drilling.