OREANDA-NEWS. August 25, 2011. Sorochinskneft oil and gas production unit (part of the TNK-BP group of companies) has brought the Kulaginskoe field with reserves of around 1 million tonnes on stream in August, reported the press-centre of TNK-BP.

According to Arkadiy Popov, head of the field development section at Sorochinskneft, trial production is now underway in Well No. 1 with an initial flow rate of 30 tonnes per day, in order to evaluate the well’s production potential and draw up a future development strategy for the field.

The Kulaginskoe field, which is located in the Novosergievskiy district of Orenburg region, was acquired in March 2011 and currently has in-place reserves of 929,000 tonnes.

TNK-BP is pursuing a major investment programme in Orenburg region and is planning to devote over USD900 million to developing local infrastructure in 2012. Orenburg is the Company’s second largest oil production region.