OREANDA-NEWS. In June 2015, JSC TATNEFT produced 2,189,037 tons of crude oil or 101.5% versus June 2014 (+33,358 tons). The volume of crude oil production for six months of 2015 amounted to 13,109,716 tons, which was 123,743 tons more than in 2014 (101%).  

New Drilling
The new drilling penetration for six months of 2015 amounted to 403.8 thousand meters with the production drilling accounting for 269.1 thousand meters and exploratory drilling accounting for 8.6 thousand meters.
0.6 thousand meters were penetrated for OOO "Tatneft-Samara", including production drilling  amounting to 0.4 thousand meters and exploratory drilling amounting to 0.2 thousand meters.
259 wells were constructed and delivered to customers, including production drilling accounting for 146 wells, exploratory drilling - 5 wells, drilling to bitumen deposits amounted to 108 wells.
1 exploratory well was delivered to OOO "Tatneft-Samara".

Active Well Stock Drilling
The penetration of sidetracking and horizontal wellbores amounted to 14,2 thousand meters for six months of 2015 while 35 wells were delivered to customers.
The average number of drilling crews performing conventional well drilling operations during six months of 2015 amounted to 42, while 10 drilling crews were engaged in drilling laterals and lateral horizontal wellbores.
18 drilling crews performed drilling to the bituminous deposits.

Repair of Wells
During six months of 2015, the crews of well remedial servicing, workover and oil recovery enhancement performed well remedial servicing in 4,385 wells (824 wells in June) and workover operations in  1,155 wells (214 wells in June).
32 wells were repaired outside the Republic of Tatarstan for OOO "Tatneft-Samara".
Formation hydrocracking operations were carried out in 332 wells (51 wells in June).
Crude oil recovery enhancement operations were performed in 1,346 wells (278 wells in June), including chemical methods applied in 653 wells (148 wells in June).

Production Performance of the JSC TANECO
The TANECO Complex of Refining and Petrochemical Plants processed 783.2 thousand tons of raw materials in June 2015 and 4,513.1 thousand tons since the beginning of the year including 710.7 thousand tons of crude oil and 4,293.7 thousand tons since the beginning of the year. The Complex yielded 752.7 thousand tons of oil products in June and 4331.8 thousand tons since the beginning of the year.