Lukoil starts eighth Vladimir Filanovsky well

Lukoil has 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.

The well, with a 1,560-metre 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 cubic metres of natural gas.

It expects plateau production of six million tonnes/year of oil. The field is in 7-11 m of water about 220 kilometres off Astrakhan.