Alliance Starts Gas Exploration in Siberia

Alliance Oil Company has completed infrastructure development and launched gas production at the Ust-Silginskiy field in the Tomsk region of Russia, in Siberia.

In a public statement the company said it has started delivering gas via a 43-kilometer pipeline from the field to the Gazprom trunk pipeline. A gas sales contract has been signed with Gazprom’s subsidiary.

A gas treatment unit, the pipeline, a custody metering station and a number of supplemental units such as a power station, a helicopter pad, a water inlet system and residential blocks have been constructed. Five production wells have been drilled, and three put into operation with gas flowing into the pipeline. Initial daily gas production amounts to approximately 700 thousand cubic metres (about 4,500 barrels of oil equivalent).

In October  last year, Alliance announced an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in LLC SN-Gazdobycha (SNGD). SNGD holds the Ust-Silginskiy and Kargasokskiy-2 license blocks covering an area of about 1,323 square kilometers located approximately 55 kilometers west of the town of Kargasok, in the Tomsk region.