OREANDA-NEWS. May 17, 2012. OJSC Varyoganneftegaz (a TNK-BP group company) will invest over 2 billion rubles in 2012 into field infrastructure projects in West Siberia. The company will build around 109 new and overhaul another 100 existing facilities, reported the press-centre of TNK-BP.

The task for the builders this year is to construct 40 well pads to accommodate the new drilling program. Varyoganneftegaz (VNG) also plans to run a six-kilometer pressurized oil line from Yermakovskiy central gathering facility to Nizhnevartovsk central heat distribution station at a cost of 233 million rubles. An underwater crossing has already been drilled under the Ob riverbed.

VNG is laying a 13.4-km-long gas pipeline and a condensate separation unit at Verkhne-Kolik-Yoganskoe field to supply more gas to Yugragazpererabotka, says Sergey Karavaev, the general director of Varyoganneftegaz. 495 million rubles has been earmarked for these purposes. “VNG’s oilfields will also receive 3 new slag-paved intrafield roads before the year ends. Production facilities and well pads will be fitted with video surveillance systems,” he adds.