OREANDA-NEWS. January 26, 2009. The total daily production from the Salym oil fields in Western Siberia, developed by Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD), has reached 150,000 bopd (over 20,500 tonne per day), reported the press-centre of Salym Petroleum.

SPD CEO Harry Brekelmans, commenting on the announcement, said: ”Since October 2007, when SPD reached a 100,000 bopd milestone, we have continued increasing production volume in a systematic way by putting on stream new wells and optimizing production processes.

Over this period, our daily production went up 1.5 times, which took us to the current benchmark of 150,000 bopd. We have produced over 45,5 million barrels (6,3 million tonnes) of oil in 2008, which is nearly 1.5 fold increase on our total oil production in 2007. SPD is steadily moving forward to its goal of becoming one of the best operating companies in Siberia.”