Astrakhan, June 15 - Neftegaz.RU. LUKOIL completed the construction and commissioned the 3rd well at the 2ond development stage of the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea.
This is a bilateral horizontal oil producing well. The length of the main wellbore is 3,795 meters while the lateral is 3,762 meters long. Well's initial flow rate exceeded 3.2 thousand tonnes of oil per day. The field's average daily production reached its plateau level post the launch of this well.
In total the construction of 8 wells is planned at the field's 2nd development stage including six producing and 2 injection wells to maintain the plateau oil production level of 6 million tonnes per year. Earlier this year, 1 production and 1 injection well had already been launched.
The construction of wellhead platform currently undergoes at the Astrakhan shipyards as part of the field's 3rd development stage.
V. Filanovsky field was commissioned in 2016. The initial recoverable oil reserves are estimated at 129 million tonnes and its gas reserves at 30 billion cubic meters. All offshore facilities at the company's fields in the Caspian Sea have been constructed at shipyards in Russia.
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