OREANDA-NEWS.JSC TATNEFT produced 2,019,396 tons of crude oil or 100.6% in February 2015 versus February 2014. The volume of crude oil production for two months of 2015 amounted to 4,252,894 tons, which was 23, 063 tons more than in 2014 (100.5%).  

 The production volume of TATNEFT Group of Companies amounted to 4,301,296 tons (100.6% or + 24,078 tons versus the last year level).

New Drilling
The new drilling penetration for February of 2015 amounted to 81.6 thousand meters (62.7 thousand meters in 2014). Out of that amount drilling performed for JSC TATNEFT amounted to 65.4 thousand meters (50.1 thousand meters in 2014), including drilling to bitumen deposits amounting to 1.8 thousand meters, production drilling accounting for 59.0 thousand meters and exploratory drilling accounting for 4.6 thousand meters.
0.2 thousand meters (1.0 thousand meters in 2014) were penetrated for OOO "Tatneft-Samara", including exploratory drilling amounting to 0.2 thousand meters.

36 wells (41 wells in 2014) were constructed and delivered to customers. Out of this amount 25 wells were delivered to JSC TATNEFT (28 wells in 2014), including drilling to bitumen deposits amounting to 1 well, production drilling accounting for 22 wells and exploratory drilling - 2 wells.

1 exploratory well (1 well in 2014) was delivered to OOO "Tatneft-Samara".

Active Well Stock Drilling
The penetration of sidetracking and horizontal wellbores amounted to 7.9 thousand meters for two months of 2015 (8.8 thousand meters in 2014) with 3.3 thousand meters (3.2 thousand meters in 2014) drilled for JSC TATNEFT.

13 wells (16 wells in 2014) were delivered to customers with 6 ones delivered to JSC TATNEFT (12 wells in 2014).

The average number of drilling crews performing conventional well drilling operations during two months of 2015 amounted to 39, while 9 drilling crews were engaged in drilling lateral and lateral horizontal wellbores. One drilling crew performed drilling to the bituminous deposits of Ashalchinskoye oil field.

The penetration per crew engaged in new drilling amounted to 2,074 meters for two months of 2015. 5.7 thousand meters were penetrated outside the Republic of Tatarstan, including 4.6 thousand meters of sidetracks and horizontal holes drilling.

Repair of Wells
During 2 months of 2015, the crews of well remedial servicing, workover and oil recovery enhancement performed well remedial servicing in 1,401 wells (752 wells in February) and workover operations in  384 wells (232 wells in February).

8 wells were repaired outside the Republic of Tatarstan for OOO "Tatneft-Samara".

Formation hydrocracking operations were carried out in 133 wells (83 in February).

Drilling of two horizontal small diameter wells using well workover equipment was completed for NGDU "Almetyevneft" and NGDU "Aznakaevskneft."

Production Performance of the JSC TANECO
The TANECO Complex of Refining and Petrochemical Plants processed 666.2 thousand tons of raw materials including 665.7 thousand tons of crude oil and yielded 655.8 thousand tons of oil products in February 2015.