Multilateral Well

At the Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye field in the Evenki Municipal District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the construction of a multi-hole well with four horizontal boreholes, a record for the Riphean deposits, was completed. The total length of the well is 5,280 m, the horizontal section is 2,220 m. The start-up oil production rate …

Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft-Yamal has completed construction of Russia’s first ever multilateral well with four horizontal cased-hole side tracks, at its Novoportovskoye field. A total 6,756 metres was drilled, including 4,411 metres drilled in the target strata. The well was constructed in 39 days at a rate of 5.78 days per 1,000 metres. Drilling horizontally branched wells facilitates a manifold increase in production from disjointed low-permeability strata, …