Russian gas giant Gazprom said it has completed drilling of five gas condensate production wells at the Nizhne-Kvakchikskoye field.
Once the construction and connection of new wells is finished, the total number of wells will reach nine – that will create the conditions required to increase gas output to the projected level – from 175 to 575 million cubic meters a year.
This year the Company plans to complete the Kshukskoye and Nizhne-Kvakchikskoye gas and condensate fields pre-development as part of the Project on Gas Supply to Kamchatka Krai. Production and auxiliary facilities are currently being constructed, installed and pre-commissioned at the fields.
According to Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, as soon as in 2013 the Company will be technically equipped to daily supply consumers in Kamchatka with 2 million cubic meters of gas produced from both fields, which is twice as much as the present-day level.
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, April 2, 2012