Production • Processing • Handling
Fracking boosts oil flow in Russia
Around the world new wells are coming on line and major production investments are being given the go-ahead.
En todo el mundo se están creando nuevos pozos y mayores inversiones de producción están recibiendo autorizaciones.
Auf der ganzen Welt werden neue Quellen in Betrieb genommen und große Investitionen in die Produktion bewilligt.
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Fig. 1. Shelton Petroleum is currently testing and optimising the flow of a new well on the Rustamovskoye field in Russia.
t the Rustamovskoye oil field in Russia, Shelton Petroleum has recently completed a series of activities designed to
increase oil production. A two-well fracking programme has substantially increased well productivity. In addition, drilling of the field’s fourth well has been completed and oil was encountered at target depth. Shelton Petroleum has raised its oil
production as a result of the fracking of wells number one and number 11 that was carried out during last summer. Production from these two wells and the number two well on the Rustamovskoye field amounts to almost 400bopd, an increase of nearly 100 per cent since the beginning of the year. Te company now produces a total of over 700bopd, including the operations in Ukraine. Te new number 12 well has been drilled to a total depth of 2500 metres. Oil has been encountered in the same sandstone formation as the three other wells produce from. Te logs indicate good reservoir properties. Shelton Petroleum is currently testing and optimising the flow of the well (Fig. 1).
Meanwhile, RWE Dea UK has started gas production from the Breagh gas field located in the UK southern North Sea. Te first three wells brought into production had an initial total flow rate of 2.75 million m3
of the Breagh field are estimated at approximately 19.8 billion m3
. Breagh is one of the largest natural
gas discoveries under development in the UK sector of the southern North Sea and the largest RWE Dea operated field development project in the UK. Te company has a 70 per cent stake in the licence, with the other 30 per cent owned by Sterling Resources UK. “Breagh is very important in the context of achieving our company’s growth targets as this field will make a major contribution towards boosting RWE Dea’s gas production,” explained Tomas Rappuhn, RWE Dea ceo. “We’re all the more delighted to be able to start up production at this point.” During phase one of the field
development project, RWE Dea expects an average annual production volume of 1.1 billion m3
production level of about 4 million m3
from 2014 to 2018. A peak /d
of natural gas is anticipated in early 2014. By investing in the Breagh field, the company says it is underlining its long- term commitment to operations on the British continental shelf. “We’ve successfully managed to bring
this extremely challenging development project to this key point with an exemplary safety record,” says Rene Pawel, senior vice president production Europe with RWE Dea. “Te installation of the offshore platform and pipeline proceeded according to schedule, and we also successfully implemented the 11km onshore pipeline to the onshore gas treatment facility in Teesside.” Te Breagh gas field is located in
Blocks 42/13a and 42/12a in the UK sector of the southern North Sea, about 65 km off the coast of north east England. Te water depth is approximately 60 metres.
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