OREANDA-NEWS. Rosneft increased technical drilling volumes at the Company’s production assets by 27% in 7 months of 2015. Based on the January through July 2015 results the overall drilling progress accounted to 4.585 mln m, whilst during the same period of 2014 the figure was 3.605 mln m.

Efficient technical drilling increase is a key priority for Rosneft’s upstream business dimension, which allows cost-efficient maintaining production at brownfields, and increasing production at greenfields.

Key factors, that boosted technical drilling figures are: increased drilling volumes at RN-Yuganskneftegas assets (increase of drilling progress outpaced the Company’s average and accounted to 39.9% - 1.719 mln m in 7 months of 2015 versus 1.229 mln m for the same period last year), and increased pace of drilling of high-technology wells. A critical constituent of the implementation of the campaign aimed at raising production efficiency was improving HSE at production drilling activities (consequently to a comprehensive set of measures a significant reduction in the breakdown rate compared to 2014 was achieved).

In the first 6 months of 2015 Rosneft brought into production more than 800 new wells. The drilling profile is becoming more complex: the number of horizontal wells in the first 6 months of 2015 exceeded 30% of the overall volume of technical drilling (more than 260 wells).