SOCAR reduced exploration and concentrates its efforts on operation drilling
During 6 months, 2014 total drilling progress of drilling subdivisions of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan totaled 72,013 meters. The drilling progress declined by 13.5% against the same period last year.
SOCAR press office reported that share of the exploration drilling totaled 1,628 meters (declined by 68.9%) and the operation drilling – 70,502 meters (declined by 9.7%).
In June 2014 the drilling companies have drilled 9,908 meters, of which 9,875 meters fell to the operation drilling and 33 meters – to the exploration drilling.
During 2013 the volume of drilling by SOCAR totaled 142,656 meters, of which 135,665 meters fell to the operation drilling and 6,991 meters to the exploration drilling.
Since the second half of last year SOCAR focused on the operation drilling. According to the program of production stabilization, in 2015-2016 SOCAR plans to drill almost 230 operation wells. According to official information of SOCAR, this year two wells a week are put into operation.
Thanks to that from January to May 2014 SOCAR has extracted 3.51 million tons of oil. The production increased by 50,000 tons or 365,000 barrels against the same period last year.--0-
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