"Gazprom Neft" drills the first horizontal well in the Arctic.
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2016-01-13 11:16:45
"Gazprom Neft" has completed the drilling of the first on the Yamal Peninsula bilateral production wells with horizontal sections in the 1 thousand meters each. The well drilled to Novoportovskoye gas condensate deposit, which is operated by "Gazprom Neft Yamal".
The total depth of the main well - 4,6 thousand meters, and horizontal sections away from it at a depth of less than 2 thousand meters. Hour drilling at the deposit was made by specialists of the Research Center "Gazprom oil".