Geography of Crude Oil & Gas Production

The main volumes of exploration works are carried out in the Russian Federation in license areas in Tatarstan, as well as in the Republic of Kalmykia, Orenburg, Samara, Ulyanovsk regions and the Nenets Autonomous District (PJSC TATNEFT acquired the rights to explore and develop crude oil, gas and condensate deposits as a result of participating at auction sales, as well as through purchasing part of the oil companies production business).

There are 6 oil subsidiaries and affiliates of PJSC TATNEFT operating outside the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation, as of 2018:

• OOO Tatneft-Samara,
• CJSC KalmTatneft,
• OJSC Kalmneftegaz,
• OOO Tatneft-NAO,
• CJSC Severgeologiya,
• CJSC Yambuloil.

The specified oil companies own licenses for geological exploration, prospecting, search and production of hydrocarbons.

PJSC TATNEFT has signed contracts on the of production sharing terms in Libya, Syria and on service terms in Turkmenistan in the field of oil treatment and oil production.

Due to the political situation in the territory of the PJSC TATNEFT’s contract areas in Libya and Syria the execution of the exploration program has been suspended. The plans for 2018 provide for continued monitoring of the situation development in these countries with a view to resuming the work after the situation stabilization and obtaining guarantees for the safety of the personnel working at the field.

The contract between PJSC TATNEFT and GK Turkmenneft was signed on July 30, 2010.

The production of additional oil amounted to 180.2 thousand tonnes, since the start of the production program in accordance with the terms of the Contract; two workover crews performed 63 workover jobs in 40 wells, mainly the wells of the inactive well stock and the stock expecting physical abandonment. 32 wells were completed with running downhole-pumping equipment, of which 26 wells are in operation, providing additional daily production up to 104 tonnes per day.

All wells are equipped and automated by the branch of PJSC TATNEFT in Turkmenistan. Works on telemechanization and supervisory control were carried out with information output to the control room in the real time mode. The section with the operating in periodic mode reservoir pressure maintenance (RPM) system was launched, consisting of 2 injection wells and 2 bore pits for 5 respondent wells.

Crude Oil Production by the TATNEFT Group of Companies (million tonnes)