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Sidetracking to Be Carried Out on an Azerbaijani Condensate Field

Oil&Gas Materials 13 March 2007 20:59 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend , corr S. Aliyev/ Preparatory works for the sidetracking on the fourth appraisal well (SDX-04) drilled at an Azerbaijani gas condensate field, "Shah-Daniz' are underway, a source in BP Azerbaijan has told Trend today. The drilling works willl be carried out by the platfor- 'Istiglal".

The depth of the well is about 7.350 meters. The sidetracking is expected to be carried out at the depth of 4.300-4.500 meters. The lenght of the future sidetrack will reach about 2.000 meters. It is expected to take about 3 mounths to carried out all these works. According to specialists, the sidetracking will allow improving the additional data to be received from the field not drilling a new well on it.

The parties to the PSA Shah-Daniz is BP (operator- 25 percent), Statoil (25,5%), SOCAR (10%), LUKAgip (10%), NICO (10%), Total (10%), and TPAO (9%).

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