Full-scale production drilling has started at the Novoportovskoye deposit
Gazprom Neft has started the execution of the production drilling program at the Novoportovskoye deposit. They are going to drill 9 wells before the end of the year. Within the 3-year plan for the deposit 'sdevelopment until 2016, they presuppose the construction of 5 cluster fields and the drilling of 60 wells.
The last operator of the project Gazprom Neft Novy Port completed the drilling program within trial and production exploitation of the deposit. They drilled 8 production wells, trialed 17 exploration wells and executed 10 layer hydraulic fracturing series, and tried for the first time multi-stage layer hydraulic fracturing technology. In winter 2014, they exported from the deposit via the winter roads 35,000 tons of oil. It was delivered to the railway station of Payuta for further supplies to the consumers.