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The ROGTEC Interview: Mikhail Vilkov, Deputy General Director – Chief Engineer of RBU Russia, ERIELL Group

A year ago, ERIELL Group broke a number of records in drilling the first 1km horizontal well at the the Urengoyskoye oil and gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. The well was drilled in the Achim deposits. During drilling, we broke our own records for both drilling time …

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The Directorate of NK Souz Has Expressed Gratitude to the Team of ERIELL Group for Cooperation Concerning Wells Testing Within Kochmes Area

The Directorate of OOO NK Souz has expressed gratitude to the team of ERIELL Group for profitable cooperation concerning wells testing within Kochmes area. The letter stated: “With the advent of OOO ERIELL NEFTEGAZSERVICE (RBU Russia, ERIELL Group) to Kochmess area the quality of wells testing works increases”. As of the effective date of the Contact testing operations are conducted within 5 wells …

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“Friendship Tree” of ERIELL Group

ERIELL Group held in Novy Urengoy a first stage of the social and charitable campaign “Friendship Tree” arranged to coincide with the 10th anniversary of its first drilling contract. “Friendship Tree” symbolizes our care of the nature and involvement in life of the communities in the regions of our operations. There was also a good reason to choose this name of the campaign. …

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ERIELL Group specialists to have achieved 902 m daily drilling progress

ERIELL Group has achieved significant results at the Beregovoye deposit within the framework of the SIBNEFTEGAZ project. Owing to well-coordinated work,  ERIELL specialists succeeded in drilling 902 m in the production string interval within 24 hours. For reference: daily drilling progress of 500 m is already regarded as high performance. …

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ERIELL Group Successfully Completed Drilling of Dour Wells in the Republic of Bangladesh Under the Contract with Gazprom International

ERIELL Group completed drilling of 4 directional wells of 3,532 — 3,880 meters in depth at Titas field in the Republic of Bangladesh under the contract with Gazprom International. The wells were constructed using the drilling rig ZJ-70 LDВ-450. Titas is not the only project of ERIELL in Bangladesh. Wells Shrikahil-3 (3,350m), Bekumgandzh (3,565m) and Semutang (3,032) have been drilled to date. In progress …

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ERIELL Group has drilled the first in Russia commercial development well to Turonian rocks under the project with Severneftegazprom

ERIELL Group has successfully completed drilling of the first well within the framework of the new project with OJSC Severneftegazprom at the Yuzhno-Russkoye oil/gas/condensate field known for some of the most stranded gas reserves. Its peculiarity is abnormally high reservoir pressure, low reservoir temperatures, lithological non-uniformity and variability and low …

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ERIELL Group Once Again Broke Its Own Record In the West Siberia’s ARCTICGAZ Project

ERIELL Group has achieved a new record level in the ARCTICGAZ project having drilled a 1,117 m-long horizontal borehole through the productive horizon with a total penetration of 5,202 m. It is one of eight most-complex subhorizontal wells that ERIELL has drilled in the Achimov horizons. Previously no other drilling company managed to drill a horizontal borehole longer than 800 m under the set …

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Technology Roundtable: Russia’s Drilling Contractors – EDC, Weatherford, Bashneft Drilling, Eriell Group, IDS and Nabors Russia

1.    Could you please describe the capabilities of your rig fleet? Bashneft-Drilling: Our rig fleet is currently located in three oil producing provinces of Russia – the Urals-Volga region, the Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO), and the Nenetsk Autonomous Okrug (NAO). Our rig fleet capabilities include: Urals-Volga region Drilling rigs with …

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ERIELL Group Surpassed Its Own Achievement in the West Siberia’s ARCTICGAZ Project

ERIELL Group has achieved a new record level in the ARCTICGAZ project having drilled the well with a 1019 m-long horizontal wellbore in 68 days. Previous achievement also was displayed by ERIELL Group. The first in the Urengoy region 1 km-long horizontal Achimov well was drilled by ERIELL in 2013. …

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Eriell Group Drills 29 Additional Wells for Achimgaz

ERIELL Group started drilling 29 additional wells in the Urengoi Oil and Gas Condensate Field, within the framework of a new agreement with CJSC Achimgaz. ERIELL Group is the general contractor and provides the services on a turnkey basis. The agreement includes the construction of directional production S-shaped wells in …

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