OREANDA-NEWS. TATNEFT has reorganized the drilling service and set up a Drilling Operations Control Center.

To improve the well construction management efficiency the Company has changed the scheme of drilling operations organization. The Drilling offices of the Oil and Gas Producing Divisions (NGDUs) are being centralized in a single service of the Company’s Executive Office. Starting July 1, 2015 the TATNEFT’s drilling sector has got three Departments: well construction, supervising and new technologies. The Drilling Operations Center has been established for the purpose of managing and monitoring the drilling operations.

Phased transfer of all the NGDUs to the new system began in 2015 and will be completed in the current year and it is solving tasks of reducing costs, improving the efficiency of drilling and the well construction process.

The work management from the single center of NGDU "Elkhovneft" and NGDU "Bavlyneft" wells since July 2015 has already resulted in reducing the time of drilling directional wells by 3%, horizontal ones – by 17% and those of small diameter - by 5%. NGDU "Almetyevneft" and NGDU "Yamashneft" switched over to using this system in October of the last year.

The meterage of penetrated rocks at the TATNEFT’s oil fields amounted to 917,000 meters in 2015. 352 new production wells were commissioned. Their average daily production rate amounted to 10 tons per day.

76 lateral and lateral horizontal well sidetracking operations were performed in the   old well stock with an average production rate of 7.9 tons per day.