Lukoil starts up third well at Filanovsky Phase 2 in the Caspian Sea
June 21, 2018
Offshore staff
MOSCOW – Lukoil has completed construction and commissioning of the third well for the second development phase of the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.
This is a bi-lateral horizontal oil producer: length of the main wellbore is 3,795 m (12,450 ft) and the lateral is 3,762 m (12,342 ft) long. Initial flow rate exceeded 3,200 metric tons/d (3,527 tons/d).
Lukoil plans eight wells in total for Phase 2, comprising six producers and two injectors, to maintain the field’s plateau oil production rate at 6 MM metric tons/yr (6.6 MM tons/yr).
Construction of wellhead platform for the third-phase Filanovsky development is under way at the Astrakhan shipyards.
06/21/2018
