Samotlor Oil Field
Summary Information
- Operator: TNK-BP
- Country: Russia
- Location: Lake Samotlor in Nizhnevartovsk district, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast, Russia
- Production start: 1969
- Partners:
- Type: Oil
- Estimated Reserves: The field’s in-place reserves are currently estimated at around 7.1 billion tons, of which over 3.5 billion tons are recoverable.
- Production Volume: 37.4 million tons per annum
Description
- The sixth largest oil field in the world, the field is 80% depleted
Geology
History
- 1964 - The field was discovered
- 1969 - Production began
- 1999 - TNK-BP began its operations in the field
Other Information
- Since development work began at Samotlor a total of 2 086 well clusters have been built. This approach resulted in the field having an unusually large number of idle wells. Since TNK-BP took over operations, however, a program of well interventions has reduced the idle well stock by 39% to its current level of about 2 109.
- In turn, new technologies (horizontal drilling, sidetracking, extended reach drilling, hydraulic fracturing) have been applied to boost the active well stock almost to 8 000. In addition, a development program has been implemented at the Ust-Vakh acreage, with 283 wells drilled and reserves of over 50 million tons brought on stream.
Links
- [www.tnk-bp.ru/en/production/exploration-production/projects/samotlor/ TNK-BP Samotlor]
- 40 years have passed from the first oil production in the Samotlor field
- SAMOTLOR DECLARED THE WORLD’S SIXTH BIGGEST FIELD
- Samotlor Field, Wikipedia
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