Petrom sets world record in horizontal drilling at Suplacu de Barcau

Newsroom 10/02/2011 | 14:03

Oil and gas producer Petrom set a world record in shallow horizontal drilling. The record was attested by Schlumberger Drilling and Measurements and refers to three horizontal wells, drilled at a depth less than 200 m, in the Suplacu de Barcau oil field. The wells have a horizontal length of 300 meters.

According to company information, one of the strategic directions of Petrom aims at the redevelopment of several major fields, one of them being Suplacu de Barcau.

Suplacu de Barcau is a mature oil field, situated in the north-west of Romania, on which the exploitation began in 1960. Insofar, over 2,800 wells were drilled on this field, out of which 744 are still active and supply around 10 percent of Petrom’s oil production.