
RussNeft Will Resume Work at the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Field, Which Was Closed Due to Sanctions
RussNeft will begin developing the Vostochno-Kamnoye field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, which was suspended in 2023 due to sanctions and the economic crisis. The head of the Khanty-Mansiysk branch of the company, Alexey Shatalov, shared his plans for drilling new wells. “At the Vostochno-Kamenny field, work on industrial development …

LUKOIL Put Into Trial Operation The Yukkun-Yoganskoe Field in Yugra
LLC LUKOIL-Western Siberia (100% subsidiary of PJSC LUKOIL) has put into trial production the Yukkun-Yoganskoye field in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. The fishery is located on the territory of the Nizhnevartovsk region, 30 kilometers from the city of Pokachi. At the exploration stage, seismic exploration work was carried out in …

Russian Oil Production is Preparing to Break the Post-Soviet Record, Media Writes
In the first 11 months of 2023, Russia drilled oil wells with a total depth of 28.1 thousand kilometers, which indicates successful resistance to Western sanctions, Bloomberg writes. The accelerated pace of drilling in Russia may break the post-Soviet record, the publication emphasized. According to analysts from Kpler and the …

US Oil Production Will Now Grow at Half The Rate
In the new year, US oil production will grow at half the rate it did last year. This forecast was announced by EOG Resources. U.S. oil production rose 900,000 barrels per day in 2023, EOG President Billy Helms said in a presentation to investors. “Given the high volume of production …

ONGC Begins First Oil Production From The Ultra-Challenging Deepwater Block KG-DWN-98/2
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has begun production from the First Oil project in the deepwater block KG-DWN-98/2 on the eastern Indian continental shelf. Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri announced this on January 7, 2024 on his page on the social network X (formerly …

Production of Viscous and Super-Viscous Oil and a Number of Fields of Rosneft and Bashneft are Switching to AIT
From January 1, 2024, production of viscous and extra-viscous oil will be subject to added income taxation (AIT). That is, areas in which at least 70% of the oil produced per year has a viscosity from 200 to 10 thousand mPa*s, as well as from 10 thousand mPa*s and more …

ExxonMobil Has Finally Left Iraq
The American oil company has finally abandoned the West Qurna 1 project in southern Iraq, transferring operational functions at one of the world’s largest oil fields to PetroChina. In 2023, the Iraqi authorities approved an agreement to transfer ExxonMobil’s 22.7% share in the West Qurna-1 project to the state-owned Basra …

Belarusian Oil Workers Produced a Record 1.87 Million Tons of Oil in 2023
The Belorusneft company noted that 201 thousand tons of oil were produced from wells drilled last year. The Belorusneft company produced a record 1.87 million tons of oil in 2023. The BelTA agency reported this with reference to company data. The company noted that 201 thousand tons of oil were …

Belorusneft’s Well Stock Was Replenished With 66 New Objects in 2023
Belorusneft’s well stock was replenished with 66 new objects in 2023, Belorusneft Deputy General Director for Geology Petr Povzhik told BELTA. In total, by the end of 2023, the company drilled 66 new wells. The volume of production from them amounted to 201 thousand tons of oil, said Petr Povzhik. …

Oil Production in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug in 2023 Decreased By 3.1%
In 2023, 216 million tons of oil were produced in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO). This follows from the materials of the Department of Subsoil Use and Natural Resources of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Oil production in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug In 2023, 216 million tons of oil were produced in …