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RUSSIA
Watchdog approves
development plans for East-
Messoyakhskoye
Russia’s industry safety watchdog Glavgoexpertiza has approved development plans for the East-Messoyakhskoye eld, operated jointly by Rosne and Gazprom Ne .
According to the regulator, the plan involves the construction of 25 well pads comprising 138 oil production and 66 injection wells, as well as in- eld pipelines, gathering systems and a central collection point. Reservoir pressure will be maintained by re-injecting water underground.
Russkoye field reserves raised by 8%
Reserve estimates for the Russkoye oil eld in Western Siberia have been raised by 8%, following exploration work undertaken by its operator Tyumenne egaz, a subsidiary of Russia’s Rosne .
In a statement on July 11, Rosne said that as of January 1 2019, the eld was estimated to hold 1.5bn tonnes of oil in AB1+B2, of which 448mn tonnes was thought to be recoverable.
RN-Purneftegaz increases well productivity
RN-Purne egaz, a subsidiary of Rosne , has managed to improve the productivity and production period of wells by applying modern technology, according to a company statement.
e development is based on the use
of directed gas-dynamic e ects on the bottomhole formation zone, Rosne said. As a result of pilot tests, the volume of additional oil production at four inclined injection wells amounted to 1,500 tonnes since the start of the rst well in early February 2019.
e operating principle of the new technology is to create gas pulses of varying intensity in the reservoir with the use of a special generator, which is lowered into the well. Pulse ontime is from 0.3 to 1.5 seconds. e pulse cleans the bottomhole formation zone, therefore improving the permeability of the rock and increasing well ow rate.
e entity plans to test the application of
innovative technology in wells with horizontal completion to rebound their productivity. In the next three years, the share of all promising technologies will be up to 25% of the total number of operations in the bottomhole formation zone treatment at RN-Purne egaz.
Gazprom Neft targets first
oil at Ayashsky block in
2025-2026
Russia’s Gazprom Ne plans to launch oil production at the Ayashsky block o the coast of Sakhalin Island in 2025-2026, the head of its Gazpromne -Sakhalin subsidiary, Denis Krilov said at the Eastern Oil and Gas Forum in Vladivostok.
Gazprom Ne has made two discoveries
at Ayashsky over the past two years. In 2017 it identi ed the Neptune eld, estimated to hold 415mn tonnes of oil in C1+C2 reserves. en in November 2018, it also reported the Triton discovery, with an estimated 137mn tonnes of resources.
Taneco plans to expand
gasoline output by 36% in
2020
e demethaniser was delivered to the construction site in Russia’s Far East along the River Amur.
e Amur GPP is due to launch its rst two processing trains in 2021. It should reach its peak capacity of 42 bcm per year by 2025.
KCA Deutag secures $168mn in Russian rig deals
Aberdeen-based service group KCA Deutag has struck deals worth $168mn for onshore drilling work at various locations in Russia.
e deal is for the deployment of ve rigs at two elds in Eastern Siberia operated by an unidenti ed existing client. Under the second contract, KCA Deutag will supply two 1500- HP cluster slider units to sites in northern Russia, under a contract extension until the end of 2021. A third deal will see the company provide a single 2000-HP rig for four wells
in southern Russia, with each well set to take around ve months to complete.
EASTERN EUROPE
Russian oil transit via
Ukraine down 29.6% in
June
e transit of Russian oil via Ukraine slumped by 29.6% y/y in June to 897,000 tonnes, state oil transport operator Ukrtransna a said. Month on month, shipments were down 50.6%, according to the company.
Supplies to re neries in Ukraine rose 11.7% to 197,700 tonnes. e bulk of this volume went to the Kremenchug oil re nery operated by Na ogaz and Privat Group.
Belarus plans to raise oil transit tariffs by 22%
Belarus intends to increase tari s for the transit of Russian oil by 21.7% in August, the spokesman for Russian oil pipeline operator Transne , Igor Demin, told reporters on July 11.
According to Demin, Transne received a letter announcing the hike from its Belarusian counterpart Gomeltransoil Druzhba.
Minsk rst announced plans to raise tari s last month, as a means of compensating
Tatne ’s oil re ning subsidiary Taneco plans to increase its capacity to produce gasoline by 36% in 2020 to 1.5mn tonnes per year, up from 1.1mn tonnes at present. is growth will be achieved thanks to the launch of a catalytic cracking unit in February next year.
Taneco has produced 525,300 tonnes of gasoline and 1.85mn tonnes of diesel since the start of the year.
Amur GPP to install third demethaniser
e Amur gas processing plant (GPP) is preparing to install a third demethaniser. “ is is one of the heaviest pieces of equipment that will be used at the plant,”
Yegeny Shilkin, deputy chief engineer at Gapzrom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, told Russian media, noting that the unit would weigh 880 tonnes.
“A er installing all internal devices, its weight will be more than 1,000 tonnes,” he said.
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