In Komi, There is Spontaneous Oil Recovery at Old Wells
In the city of Ukhta, right on the street, they again found a source of oil. “Black gold” comes to the surface of the earth from old exploration wells. Other causes of the spill include squeezing out oily liquid due to groundwater movement, local media write.
“In the pearl of the North at the intersection of Kuratova and Internatsionalnaya streets, a manifestation of oil products was recorded,” Devon news agency quotes the words of the head of the Komi Ministry of Natural Resources, Ekaterina Kiselevich. “Our colleagues, together with employees of the Ukhta administration, examined the territory and installed a fence. territory we plan to attract specialists from OOO LUKOIL-Komi.
This is not the first such case in Ukhta. The fact is that in these places in the Soviet years, oil wells were actively drilled for the development of the Chibyu oil field. Later, the city grew, and the abandoned exploration sites ended up within the boundaries of the settlement.
In June 2021, the Devon news agency wrote that on the same Kuratov Street, oil began to flow out of the sinkhole. During earthworks, the head of an old well of the Ukhta exploration expedition was found. The public utilities had to mothball it and level the failure.
In 2022, oil and gas began to surface very close to high-rise buildings. This was filmed by a local resident Nikolai Zinoviev, Komiinform writes.
“Large-scale development of the subsoil of the North and Siberia began from this field, the best geologists worked here,” he commented. “Several hundred such wells have been drilled, some already under residential buildings. As you can see, the in-situ pressure has been restored, it can be produced. “is the birthplace of the first Russian oil. In ancient times, this is how people noticed self-excretions of oil.”
In the same year, in Ukhta, access to an oil barn in a forest belt was restricted. It barely failed a woman with a dog. Both managed to escape.
