TNK-BP identifies promising difficult oil projects with reserves of 600 mln tonnes
TYUMEN. April 11 (Interfax) - TNK-BP has identified seven difficult oil projects in Western Siberia with reserves of 600 million tonnes that have promise for further development, the head of the company's Tyumen Oil Research Center, Andrei Lazeyev told reporters.
He said TNK-BP estimates it has a total of 1 billion tonnes of reserves of difficult oil in Western Siberia. However, the most promising for the company are seven assets in this region that hold 600 million tonnes of oil, including the Samatlor, Severo-Varyeganskoye and Khokhryakovskoye fields and the Talinskaya area.
The company plans to develop the difficult deposits with new technologies, which it is now studying. "We will be able to precisely say which reserves we will be able to develop using new technologies in two years at the earliest,' Lazeyev said.
TNK-BP will also use new technologies to develop the gas caps of oil fields. It intends to increase gas reserves by 300 billion cubic meters by developing the gas caps of the Samotlor field and the fields of Varyeganneftegaz.
TNK-BP this year already resumed exploration at the Severo-Varyeganskoye field, where potential gas reserves total about 42 bcm, according to preliminary estimates. In order to clarify reserves here, the company will carry out a pilot 3D seismic exploration project by the end of 2012 covering 130 square km.