OREANDA-NEWS. Enterprises of the TATNEFT Croup of Companies produced 2,445.6 thousand tonnes of crude oil in August while the production for the eight months period amounted to 19,258.7 thousand, which was 511 thousand tonnes more than the figure for the similar period of 2016.

The PJSC TATNEFT’s production amounted to 2, 417.0 thousand tonnes of crude oil, 19,022 thousand tonnes during eight months (+502 thousand tonnes; 102.7%) to the similar period of 2016.

The Company’s subsidiaries produced 28 thousand 550 tonnes of crude oil in the licensed areas outside the Republic of Tatarstan with the total production for eight months  amounting to 236, 858 tonnes (+9.0 thousand tonnes;104%).

484 new wells were built and delivered to customers during eight months of 2017, which was 13 percent more than the number for a similar period in 2016 (including production drilling – 477 wells, exploratory wells – 6 wells, drilling to the bitumen – 1 well.

There were 64 sidetracks and horizontal wellbores delivered during eight months in 2017, accounting for a 5 percent increase versus the number during a similar period of 2016 (61 wells in 2016).

Drilling of wells for OOO “Tatneft-Samara” in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Republic of Kalmykia

Drilling of well No. 1 at the Barrieryaya Area was completed in the Republic of Kalmykia. 5,800 m had been penetrated according to the plan. The well testing operations are underway.

Drilling of well No. 18 was completed in the Ulyanovsk region. The work is underway to perform the well completion and testing.

There are wells Nos. 354, 342р and 91bs in the process of drilling in the Samara region.

During eight months of 2017, the remedial well servicing crews performed remedial servicing operations in 7,250 wells at the sites of PJSC TATNEFT (826 wells in August), while workover operations were performed in 1,765 wells (263 wells in August).

There were 39 wells repaired for OOO “Tatneft-Samara” and 5 wells for OOO “Tatneft-Severny” outside the Republic of Tatarstan.

Formation hydrocracking operations were carried out in 576 wells (58 wells in August).

Oil recovery enhancement operations were performed in 1,888 wells (261 wells in August), including chemical methods applied in 914 wells (138 wells in August).