OREANDA-NEWS. April 10, 2014.
Crude Oil Production
The amount of 2,222,850 tons of crude oil or 100.4 percent versus March 2013 (+7.9 thousand tons) was produced at JSC TATNEFT, while the three months production amounted to 6,452,681 tons (100.45%), which is 28,767 tons more than in 2013 (100.45%). All the NGDUs fulfilled the plan.

The amount of 6,350,125 tons of oil was delivered since the beginning of the year with the above-the-plan delivery amounting to 32,045 tons.

New Drilling

The new drilling penetration for three months of 2014 amounted to 85.8 thousand meters (108.2 thousand meters in 2013), including production drilling in the amount of 81.1 thousand meters and exploratory drilling amounting to 4.7 thousand meters.

1.3 thousand meters (11.8 thousand meters in 2013) were penetrated for "Tatneft-Samara", including production drilling in the amount of 1.0 thousand meters and exploratory drilling amounting to 0.3 thousand meters.

55 wells (59 wells in 2013) were constructed and delivered to JSC TATNEFT, including 52 wells of production drilling and 3 wells of exploratory drilling.

1 production well was constructed and delivered to OOO "Tatneft-Samara" (10 wells in 2013).

Active Well Stock Drilling

The penetration of sidetracking and horizontal wellbores for JSC TATNEFT amounted to 5.2 thousand meters (5.9 thousand meters in 2013) during three months of 2014.

18 wells (11 wells in 2013) were delivered to JSC TATNEFT.

The average number of drilling crews performing conventional well drilling operations since the beginning of 2014 amounted to 34, while 14 drilling crews were engaged in drilling lateral and lateral horizontal wellbores. One drilling crew performed drilling to the bituminous deposits of Ashalchinskoye oil field for NGDU "Nurlatneft".

The penetration per crew engaged in new drilling amounted to 2,960 meters during three months of 2014. 15.7 thousand meters were penetrated outside the Republic of Tatarstan, including 9.2 thousand meters for penetration of sidetracks and horizontal holes.  

Repair of Wells

During three months of 2014 the crews of remedial servicing, workover and oil recovery enhancement performed remedial servicing of 1,907 wells (618 wells in March) and workover in 531 wells (191 wells in March), including production string sealing performed in 49 wells, shutting-off individual layers and recompletion in other intervals in 26 wells, transfer of wells into different categories and wells completion for injection in 49 wells, liquidation of downhole complications and cleaning of production casing and bottomhole in 34 wells and installation of isolating packers and dual completion systems in 24 wells.

36 wells were repaired outside the Republic of Tatarstan with 34 wells for O "Tatneft-Samara" and 2 wells for "Tatneft-Severny".

Formation hydrofracking operations were performed in 150 wells (54 wells in March).
Works on oil recovery enhancement were performed in 627 wells (240 wells in February), including chemical methods applied in 317 wells (115 wells in March).

Bottomhole area treatment operations with application of JSC TATNEFT's technologies were performed in 742 wells.

Production Performance of the JSC TANECO

The TANECO Complex of Refining and Petrochemical Plants processed 704.6 thousand tons of crude oil and yielded 699.3 thousand tons of oil products in March 2014.