SOCAR-AQS starts drilling of next well on Gunashli
By Amina Nazarli
SOCAR-AQS commences drilling of Well 344 from Platform 11, which is located on Shallow Water Gunashli (SWG) Field. It is planned that Well 344 wil be drilled into Fasila Layer (FLD), and its target depth will reach 3150 m. The daily rate of the well is expected to be 60 ton of oil, according to the plan.
SOCAR- AQS, as a company which always adheres to its values, is confident that it will continue construction and handover the wells to its customer in compliance with the requirements of Health, Safety and Environment, without any complications, ahead of targeted schedule and in a cost effective manner.
The customer is Azneft Production Unit.
SOCAR-AQS LLC was established as an integrated drilling and well
services management company between the Azerbaijan State Oil
Company 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 platform. Some 11 of which are located on Shallow Water Gunashli Field, and one platform is located on Umid Field. At the same time, the company is continuing preparatory work on drilling the wells on the West Absheron, Bulla and Gunashli 7 Fields.
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 the certificate based on the requirements of API Spec Q2 in the near future.
--
Amina Nazarli is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on
Twitter: @amina_nazarli
Follow us on Twitter @AzerNewsAz
Here we are to serve you with news right now. It does not cost much, but worth your attention.
Choose to support open, independent, quality journalism and subscribe on a monthly basis.
By subscribing to our online newspaper, you can have full digital access to all news, analysis, and much more.
You can also follow AzerNEWS on Twitter @AzerNewsAz or Facebook @AzerNewsNewspaper
Thank you!