Tatneft Group’s Total Proved Reserves of Crude Oil and Condensate at Year-End 2019 Amounted to 6.7 Billion Barrels or 940 Million Tonnes
Based on the audit by an independent oil and gas consulting firm Miller & Lents, Ltd. net recoverable oil and gas reserves of Tatneft in accordance with the standards of the Petroleum Resources Management System prepared by the Oil and Gas Reserves Committee of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE-PRMS) as of 31 December 2019, assuming full economic life of the fields and constant prices, were:
| Reserves Category | Crude and Condensate (MBbls) | Gas (MMcf) |
| Proved Developed Producing | 3 210 953 | 1 185 745 |
| Proved Developed Nonproducing | 2 450 704 | 919 100 |
| Proved Undeveloped | 1 017 758 | 372 471 |
| Total Proved | 6 679 415 | 2 477 316 |
| Probable | 2 312 215 | 780 664 |
| Possible | 238 733 | 10 729 |
At the end of 2019 total proved reserves of crude and condensate were estimated at 940.3 million tonnes, and of gas at 70.15 billion cubic meters.
In addition to the audit of reserves, net contingent resources in the company’s fields were estimated at year-end 2019:
| Resources Category | Crude and Condensate (MBbls) | Gas (MMcf) |
| Low Estimate (1С) | 534 047 | 261 190 |
| Best Estimate (2С) | 811 365 | 442 539 |
| High Estimates (3С) | 1 725 775 | 2 145 852 |
Contingent resources are defined by the SPE-PRMS as those quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be potentially recoverable from known accumulations by application of development projects not currently considered to be commercially recoverable due to one or more contingencies.
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