Project Profile
Location: Katangsky District, Irkutsk Region, Eastern Siberia, Russia
Reserves: 483 million barrels of oil and 38.9 bcm of gas (C1 and C2, January 2016)
Production: 120 tonnes per day (879.6 bpd) - first horizontal well
Start-up Year: July 2018
The Ignyalinskoye oil and gas condensate field forms part of the Chonsky project, which consists of two other oilfields – Timpuchikanskoye and Vakunaiskoye – which straddle the border between the Irkutsk and Sakha regions. Gazprom Neft teamed up with JOGMEC to explore and develop the Ignyalinskoye field in 2012, but the Japanese firm withdrew from the project three years later. In 2015, it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CEFC China Energy to develop all three fields; however, a binding deal was not finalised.
Gazprom Neft has also partnered with Schlumberger to build a new seismic model of the asset, which was used during the testing of two pilot wells drilled within the licence. Since the field's discovery, Gazprom Neft has drilled five exploratory wells and conducted 3D seismic operations and electrical exploration covering some 1,200 sq. kilometres. The operator began production testing at the field in June 2016 while an initial commercial oil flow was recovered in early 2016. The first horizontal production well was drilled in a horizontal section of 1,000 metres.
Operators:
Gazpromneft-Angara (a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft)
Contractors:
Schlumberger: build a new seismic model