
Caspian Sunrise PLC: Company’s First Horizontal Well is Successful
The Board of Caspian Sunrise is pleased to update the market with news of its latest well drilled on the MJF Structure at the BNG Contract Area. Background Well 154, which was spudded in April 2021, was drilled vertically to a depth of 2,298 meters and then horizontally for a further 250 meters …
SLC-Group: Horizontal Oil Well for Rosneft
New horizontal oil well # 5558 was drilled on Krasnoleninskoe oilfield for ROSNEFT oil company, with the using of the top drive system DQ70BSQ, which was set on the drilling rig ‘БУ 3000 ЭУК’. The well depth was 3962 m. Performance of the top drive had the following maximum values: …

Gazprom Neft: Drills 1,500m Horizontal Well at the Novoportovskoye Field
Gazprom Neft has become the first oil operator in Russia to drill a well with a horizontal borehole of 1,500 metres. The well, on the Yamal Peninsula, reaches a total 4,200 metres in length. Some 91 percent of the horizontal section, moreover, is located in the oil-saturated bed of the Novoportovskoye formation, characterised by high permeability strata which yield high flow rates without the application …
Ruspetro: Q3 Results – Revenues Up 17%
Ruspetro plc announces its interim management statement for Q3 2014 and the period up to and including 29 October 2014. HIGHLIGHTS Financial · Revenues up 17% in Q3 from Q2 2014 at US$16.5 million · Additional Glencore domestic prepayment facility entered into on 29 October 2014 for a sum of …
SLC-Group Delivered New Horizontal Well for Rosneft on Krasnoleninskoe Oilfield
New horizontal well # 5518 was drilled on Krasnoleninskoe oilfield for ROSNEFT oil company with the using of the top drive system DQ70BS, which was set on the drilling rig ‘ЭУК 3000’. The well length was 3802 m. Performance of the top drive had the following maximum values: *rotation speed 120 rpm./min.; *torque 27 kNm. …
Eriell Group to Successfully Complete Northgas Project at the North Urengoy Oil & Gas Condensate Field
ERIELL Group has completed works under the Northgas project at the North Urengoy OGCF (Severo-Urengoyskoye OGCF) having successfully drilled six producing directional wells with horizontal section. In total, 25,467 m were drilled. In February 2013, ERIELL was elected general contractor under this contract. The works were performed on a “turnkey” …
New Generation 3M Proppants – Applications In Hydraulic Fracturing
Sergey Papkov – 3M Oil&Gas Advanced Application Development Engineer Horizontal wells drilling instead of vertical wells allows to drill directly in the reservoir, wellbore in the productive interval may reach up to 9 kilometers of the horizontal section, thus increasing drainage area several times compared to the vertical wells, drilling …
Ruspetro: First Multi Stage Frac Horizontal Well Flows at 1,350 bopd
Ruspetro plc today announces that a successful ten day flow test has been carried out on the Company’s first multi-stage fractured horizontal well (number 214) in its Pottymsko-Inginsky license area. Three large fractures were placed in the 600 meter horizontal section of the well. After initial clean-up the well produced …
Salym Petroleum Development Drills 900th Salym Well
On 25 May 2014 Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) drilled its 900th well on the Salym group of fields since the execution of the Salym Project began in 2003. The anniversary well, 3150 meters deep, was drilled on the Upper Salym field in 14.41 days. It’s a first sub-horizontal well to …
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 …