Firstdrill completes major new Caspian discovery
  by: OilOnline
  Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Firstdrill Ltd has successfully completed the full project management of the exploration well, Centralaya-1, which has yielded a major new oil and gas discovery in the Caspian Sea.  The well, which is in water depths of approximately 456 metres, produced a commercial open flow of sweet crude during testing. Firstdrill is contracted by the operator TsentrKaspneftagas ( a joint venture between OAO Lukoil and OAO Gazprom), to provide full project management services for the well.

The Firstdrill project managed well, Centralaya-1, is located in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea and was drilled to a total vertical depth of 4227 metres using the Maersk Explorer Semisubmersible Drilling Rig. The well is on the Tsentrainaya structure and is the first exploration well drilled on the licence area.

Firstdrill's services for the successful exploration well included pre-planning, contracting of drilling services, material purchases, and the development of the drilling programme, including the establishment of the logistics functions and the execution of the well with rig site supervisors and geologists offshore. The operations also included the successful tests on the newly discovered reservoir.

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