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Azerbaijan’s SOCAR-AQS LLC has completed drilling works on Well 318 located on the platform 7.

SOCAR-AQS has completed the works on construction of well 318 from stationary platform 7, with target depth of 2900 m, successfully, ahead of schedule, without any incidents and without harming the environment.

The Customer of drilling works is Azneft Production Unit.

The company is committed to adhere to its values, and as before, will be delivering the wells to its customers in compliance with health, safety and environment requirements; without any complications, ahead of the determined schedule and in cost effective manner.

SOCAR-AQS LLC was established as an integrated drilling and well services management company between the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic and Absheron Drilling Company in 2007. Main scope of activities of the company is provision of work and services related with drilling of oil and gas wells, including: well design and planning; drilling of oil and gas wells; drilling of directionally deviated wells; drilling of horizontal wells; well completion; well workover; sidetracking and drilling of multilateral wells.

Currently, SOCAR-AQS implements works on drilling the wells from fixed platforms 7 and 11 located on Shallow Water Gunashli Field, fixed platform 20 on the West Absheron fixed platform 1 located on Umid Field and from fixed platform 6 located on the Bulla Field.

The company is a contractor member of IADC since 2009. SOCAR-AQS has been assessed and certified as meeting the requirements of ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 international standards for Provision of Integrated Offshore Oil & Gas Drilling and Well Services; Casing Running Services and BOP and Wellhead Equipment Repairing and Testing Services.

SOCAR-AQS is conducting the work on obtaining, in the near future, of the certificate based on the requirements of API Spec Q2.

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