OREANDA-NEWS. January 9, 2008. The Complex Drilling Trust has a crucial function to carry out complex drilling activities at offshore and onshore hydrocarbon fields of SOCAR by employing advanced techniques and technologies, and to provide field workers with the oil and gas wells meeting the all requirements of development.

The Complex Drilling Trust had remarkable achievements in 2007. The Trust carried out 174025-meter drilling activities by November 30 and fulfilled the annual forecast a month ahead of the schedule. In addition, the Trust managed to overfulfil the forecast on well construction for 2007 and handed out 105 wells.

The workers of this unit opened 2008 with new achievements. Therefore, Gobustan Exploration Drilling Unit of the Trust effectively completed drilling activities in the oil well № 31 in Jafarli field on January 1, 2008. The well was drilled in 3970-meter depth of Middle Eocene sediments. The daily flow rate of the well developed by Muradkhanli Enlarged Oil Field is 70 tons. In addition, Gobustan Exploration Drilling Unit started drilling activities in the exploration well № 1 in Jahandar field. Projected depth of the well is 3400 meter and it will be handed out by the end of 2008.