OREANDA-NEWS. August 12, 2015.

Crude Oil Production
In July 2015, PJSC TATNEFT produced 2,276,039 tonnes of crude oil or 102.2% versus July 2014 (+48,578 tonnes). The volume of crude oil production for seven months of 2015 amounted to 15,385,755 tonnes, which was 172,321 tonnes more than in 2014 (101.1%).
The production volume for TATNEFT Group of Companies amounted to 15,563,193 tonnes of crude oil (101.1%; +173,158 tonnes versus the level of the previous year).

New Drilling
The new drilling penetration for seven months of 2015 amounted to 489.0 thousand meters (plan - 474.1 thousand meters) with the production drilling accounting for 317.5 thousand meters (plan - 304.7 thousand meters) and exploratory drilling accounting for 10.9 thousand meters (plan - 8.8 thousand meters), while drilling to bitumen deposits amounted to 160.6 thousand meters (plan - 160.6 thousand meters).
2.3 thousand meters (plan - 1.4 thousand meters) were penetrated for OOO "Tatneft-Samara", including production drilling amounting to 1.5 thousand meters (plan - 1.4 thousand meters) and exploratory drilling amounting to 0.7 thousand meters (plan - 0 thousand meters).
322 wells (plan - 313 wells) were delivered to customers, including  production drilling amounting to 177 wells (plan -169 wells) and exploratory drilling - 6 wells (plan - 6 wells), drilling to bitumen deposits amounted to 139 wells (plan - 138 wells).
1 exploratory well (plan - 1 well) was delivered to OOO "Tatneft-Samara".

Active Well Stock Drilling
The penetration of sidetracking and horizontal wellbores amounted to 17.2 thousand meters for seven months of 2015 (plan - 16.9 thousand meters) while 40 wells (plan - 40 wells) were delivered to customers.
The average number of drilling crews performing conventional well drilling operations during seven months of 2015 amounted to 43, while 10 drilling crews were engaged in drilling laterals and lateral horizontal wellbores.
24 drilling crews performed drilling to the bituminous deposits.

Repair of Wells
During seven months of 2015, the crews of well remedial servicing, workover and oil recovery enhancement performed well remedial servicing in 5,219 wells (834 wells in July) and workover operations in  1,325 wells (170 wells in July).
47 wells were repaired outside the Republic of Tatarstan for OOO "Tatneft-Samara".
Formation hydrocracking operations were carried out in 382 wells (50 wells in July).
Crude oil recovery enhancement operations were performed in 1,553 wells (209 wells in July), including chemical methods applied in 752 wells (99 wells in July).

Production Performance of the JSC TANECO
The TANECO Complex of Refining and Petrochemical Plants processed 772.2 thousand tonnes  of raw materials in July 2015 and 5,285.4 thousand tonnes since the beginning of the year including 735.5 thousand tonnes of crude oil and 5,029.2 thousand tonnes since the beginning of the year. The Complex yielded 745.6 thousand tonnes of oil products in July and 5,077.3 thousand tons since the beginning of the year.