LUKOIL making good headway with priority projects in the Caspian sea

Astrakhan, June 27 - Neftegaz.RU. LUKOIL is successfully evolving its priority projects in the north of the Caspian Sea. The company continues to construct facilities at Vladimir Filanovsky, Yury Korchagin and Rakushechnoye fields.

Thus, the company has commissioned the 8th and 9th production wells at V. Filanovsky field as part of Phase 2 of the project development. The former has the bottom hole as deep as 5,153 m and a 3,439 m long horizontal section. The bottom hole of the latter is 2,540 m deep; its horizontal section is 629 m long.

Both wells are monobore wells with a daily initial flow rate exceeding 1,000 metric tons each. The field's production is maintained at the planned level of 6 million metric tons a year since 2018.

As part of Phase 2 of the construction plan for Yury Korchagin field, the company has completed the 4th well at the wellhead platform with a bottom hole 6,390 m deep and a horizontal section 4,276 m long.

An intelligent completion system run down the hole of the well, allows real-time control of operation depending on actual conditions, which contributes to higher efficiency of the recovery of hydrocarbons.

As a result of the drilling program implemented as part of Phase 2 of the Yury Korchagin development plan, production of oil went up 27% in the 1st quarter of 2019 as against the same period of the previous year.

As for Rakushechnoye field, the company performs construction and assembly works, develops technical documentation, procures equipment and materials, and performs hull works on the topsides and substructures of the fixed ice resistant platform and of the accommodation platform.

Commercial production of oil at Rakushechnoye field is to begin in 2023. The planned annual production rate is estimated 1.2 million metric tons of oil.

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