Socar president: A new well from second platform on Umid field to be drilled in 2020

16:36 - 19.09.2018


September 19, Fineko/abc.az. Socar president Rovnag Abdullayev said that a new well on the second platform to be constructed on gas condensate field Umid will be drilled in 2020.
He noted that among the plans is construction of the second platform within the framework of full-scale development of the field, drilling of a well on this platform at the end of 2020 and its commissioning in 2021.
Umid field was included in industrial development in 2012.
Umid is the first field discovered after the restoration of state independence of Azerbaijan. Hydrocarbon reserves in the structure are estimated at 200 bn cu m of gas and 40 million tons of condensate.
Earlier this year the field was extracted 265,300 tons of condensate and 1.67 bn cu m of gas. There are two development wells on the field (well #12 is closed for repairs) and 1,250 cu m of gas and 200 tons of condensate a day are extracted from these wells. Currently, drilling on Umid field is conducted in production well #16. Commissioning of this well is scheduled for October 2018.

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