Lukoil Starts up Siberian Field
Russian oil major Lukoil has begun pilot production at the Khalmerpayutinskoye gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets region of west Siberia, it said on December 28.
The field hosts two wells flowing at a daily rate of 395,000 m3 of gas and 31 metric tons of condensate, Lukoil said in a statement. The project also consists of a gas treatment unit, a gas-fired power plant, gas gathering systems, a methanol pipeline and other facilities.
Khalmerpayutinskoye is connected with the gas transportation system of the Bolshekhetskaya depression, where Lukoil's key gas processing assets in Russia are situated. The company plans to drill four wells at the field and decide on further development based on their results.
Lukoil brought on stream the first field in the Bolshekhetskaya depression, Nakhodkinskoye, in 2005. It started oil production at the second, Pyakyakhinskoye, in 2016, followed by gas extraction the following year. The company then launched pilot operations at the Yuzhno-Messoyakhskoye gas deposit in December last year.
Lukoil produced 35bn m3 of gas in 2019, although it extracted only 17.8bn m3 in Russia. It flowed a further 14.1bn m3 from its projects in Uzbekistan.