卢克首次成功开采里海石油, 卢克石油公司
Release Date: 2010-04-28
First oil was extracted today at the Yu. Korchagin field in the Russian offshore of the Caspian Sea. Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, participated in the ceremony dedicated to the commissioning of this field.
LUKOIL discovered the Yu. Korchagin field in 2000. Its 3Р category hydrocarbon reserves exceed 270 million BOE. The maximum expected output is 2.5 million tons of oil and 1 billion cubic meters of gas annually. Between 2004 and 2009, LUKOIL invested a total of RUR 34.4 billion into field development. The Company expects to extract 343 thousand tons of oil till the end of the year.
The field's infrastructure includes an ice-resistant stationary platform (IRP-1) with a drilling complex to drill 7,400 m deep wells, an additional ice-resistant stationary platform (IRP-2) for the staff (to accommodate 105 people), a subsea pipeline with a length of 58 kilometers, diameter of 300 millimeters, and a wall thickness of 16 millimeters, and a floating storage unit to carry a crew of 25 men. The floating storage unit is mounted outside of the Caspian ice zone. The deadweight is 28,000 tons.
Oil will be transported from the area by shuttle tankers with deadweight of 6,000 - 12,000 tons.
At the moment, the third well is being drilled for water injection in order to maintain the formation pressure. The first well was drilled for oil extraction and the second one to extract associated gas for autonomous power supply to the facility.
LUKOIL has implemented a unique engineering solution: drilling horizontal wells with a length exceeding 5 kilometers. Due to a regular radial location of the wells, it is possible to simultaneously drill in all the productive formations. Monitoring of the drilling process is also conducted from the shore via satellite channel on-line.
During an oilfield construction LUKOIL conducted satellite monitoring of the northern part of the Caspian Sea. The satellite data were received by the Company’s specialists in the quasi-real mode via the webservice LUKOIL-Kosmosnimki. The monitoring revealed no evidence of oil spills within the boundaries of the Company’s license areas during the whole monitoring period.
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | 卢克石油公司 |
| Country: | 俄罗斯 |