Lukoil pushed oil production at Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea to 16,500 tonnes/day with the completion of the field’s eighth well (OGJ Online, Nov. 2, 2016).
The well, with a 1,560-m horizontal section, flowed 2,800 tonnes/day. Two of the wells in the field are water injectors currently producing oil.
Lukoil estimates initial recoverable reserves at 129 million tonnes of oil and 30 billion cu m of natural gas.
It expects plateau production of 6 million tonnes/year of oil. The field is in 7-11 m of water about 220 km off Astrakhan.