OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2009. Gazprom has brought comprehensive gas treatment unit No.22 (CGTU-22) into pilot operation to develop the Achimov deposits in the Urengoy oil and gas condensate field.

Thus, the Company has launched its first stand-alone project on gas production from the Achimov deposits featuring a more complex geological structure if compared to the conventional Cenomanian and Valanzhin deposits.

Once CGTU-22 reaches its design capacity, the project is expected to yield circa 3.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

So far, nine wells have been drilled at CGTU-22, of which only two wells with the daily productivity of some 1 million cubic meters have been put onstream.

Development of the hardly-accessible Achimov deposits provides the opportunity to produce additional gas volumes from declining fields.