OREANDA-NEWS. December 14, 2009. Three million tons of crude oil have been produced from Vankor Field in Krasnoyarsk Region, developed by ZAO Vankorneft – a Rosneft subsidiary, reported the press-centre of Rosneft.

Current Vankor production is getting close to 30 thousand tons of oil per day with an expectation to exceed this level by the year end.

Since the beginning of commercial oil production on August 21 this year the number of producing wells was increased from 48 to 61, the number of injectors – from 40 to 44. The increase of production rates is ensured by commissioning of new oil and gas treatment facilities, application of advanced oil recovery methods and expansion of operating well stock.

The first million of tons of Vankor oil was produced in September, the second came in October 2009. The plan is to be extracting more than 25 million tons of oil per year at the peak level of crude oil production.