SBK Begins Drilling For TNK-BP in Krasnoyarsk

April 7, 2010

Servisnaya Burovaya Kompaniya (SBK), a subsidiary of Gazpromneft-Nefteservis, began drilling wells on April 4 under a contract with TNK-BP Management at the Tagulsky licensed block in Krasnoyarsk Territory, the company reported.

Last autumn, SBK won a tender offered by TNK-BP to drill well number 19 at the Tagulsky licensed block and three wells – one test well and two production wells – t the Russko-Rechenskoye field. One of the production wells will have a horizontal section.

Servisnaya Burovaya Kompaniya has worked with TNK-BP previously, successfully drilling well 741 at Russko-Rechenskoye in 2006.

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