Horizontal Ignyalinskoye well flows oil

Gazpromneft-Angara reports commercial oil flow from the first horizontal well drilled in Ignyalinskoye oil and gas condensate field in eastern Siberia.

After multistage fracturing, the well flowed more than 120 tonnes/day, the company said.

Gazpromneft used Schlumberger seismic services to create a model of the field’s complex geology. It said two pilot wells confirmed the model.

The company shipped the first batch of oil from the Ignyalinsky Block about 100 km to the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline in February. It expects full production to begin in 2024.

The 2,153-sq-km Ignyalinsky license block is the southern module of Gazpromneft’s Chonsky project in the Katangsky District of the Irkutsk Region on the border with the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (OGJ Online, Apr. 12, 2016). The northern module comprises the Tympuchikansky and Vakunaysky license blocks.