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Gazprom Neft pushes ahead

with new oil project

RUSSIA RUSSIA’S Gazprom Neft has launched full-scale pipeline system.
development at a group of oil sites in Western Some 54 wells have already been sunk at
Output at Zhagrin is Siberia’s oil heartlands of Khanty-Mansiysk and Alexander Zhagrin, and the count should reach
expected to peak at Tyumen, the producer announced on July 29. 920 by 2028, most of which will be horizontal.
130,000 bpd by 2024. The five licence blocks – Zapadno-Zimny, The North-Vayskoye and Srednevayskoye
Yuzhno-Zimny, Severo-Vaysky, Karabashsky-84 fields, named after their respective blocks, hold
and Srednevaysky – span over 5,000 square km 594mn barrels of liquids hydrocarbons, while the
and are estimated by Gazprom Neft to hold Yuzhno-Zimny and Karabashsky blocks could
650mn tonnes (476mn barrels) of oil in place contain more than 132mn barrels of oil. Zapad-
(OIP). West-Zimny contains the Alexander no-Zimny is assessed as comprising 2.84bn bar-
Zhagrin oilfield, which is already under develop- rels of crude.
ment, with output slated to peak at 6.5mn tonnes Prospecting work will continue at Seve-
per year (130,000 barrels per day) by 2024. ro-Vaysky, Srednevaysky and Zapadno-Zimny
Alexander Zhagrin holds around 814mn until 2027, and until 2029 at Yuzhno-Zimny and
barrels of OIP, according to Gazprom Neft. Dis- Karabashsky-84. This will enable Gazprom Neft
covered in 2017, the field now hosts well pads, to draw up development plans.
oil-gathering lines, a separation unit, an initial “The Alexander Zhagrin field was brought
energy complex, power supply lines and a road into development in just two years following its
transport network. An oil processing facility is discovery – against an industry average of eight
due to be commissioned in 2022. to 10 years,” Gazprom Neft’s deputy CEO for
Full completion of its oil transportation infra- upstream, Vadim Yakovlev, said in a statement.
structure is anticipated by the end of this year. “Going forward, this new hydrocarbon cluster in
These pipelines will link future oil treatment south-west Khanty-Mansiysk will prove a solid
facilities with the Demyanskoye delivery point, base for maintaining oil production volumes in
where crude will be fed into Russia’s national this region.” ™

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