OREANDA-NEWS. In July 2016 TATNEFT Croup enterprises produced 2,410,554 tonnes of crude oil (104.6% versus July 2015, with the seven months volume amounting to 16,318,171 tonnes (104.9% versus the similar period of 2015).

The production volume of PJSC TATNEFT amounted to 2,380,933 tonnes of crude oil in July (104.6% versus July 2015. The production for the seven months amounted to 16,120,222 tonnes (104.8% (104.9% versus the similar period of 2015).

The Company’s subsidiaries produced 29 621 tonnes in July 2016 at the licensed areas outside the Republic of Tatarstan (100.7 percent) with the seven months volume amounting to 197 949 tonnes (111.6 percent versus the similar period of 2015)).

Drilling

There were 270 production wells drilled from the beginning of the year with the planned figure amounting to256 wells (+5.5%). In addition there were 4 exploratory wells drilled. Pilot operations program of gill-in drilling was fulfilled by 93 percent.

There were 51 sidetracks and horizontal wellbores delivered during seven months in 2016 with the planned figure amounting to 48 wells (+6% to the plan).

Repair of Wells

During seven months of 2016 remedial well servicing was performed in 5,576 wells by the crews of remedial servicing, workover and enhanced oil recovery at the sites of PJSC TATNEFT (907 wells in July), while workover operations were performed in 1,301 wells (182 wells in July).

Outside the Republic of Tatarstan remedial servicing operations were performed in 37 wells for OOO “Tatneft-Samara” and 11 wells for OOO “Tatneft-Severny”.