Belorusneft starts operations in Northern Caucasus oil fields

       The Belarusian oil industry company Belorusneft has started operations to enhance oil recovery in oil fields in Northern Caucasus, the company’s press service reports. In line with the contract the company will perform five hydraulic fracturing operations for Grozneftegaz, one of the oil and gas extracting enterprises of Rosneft. The first operation of the kind was successfully completed several days ago. After the company is done in Russia’s Chechnya, the equipment for hydraulic fracturing and salt-acid fracturing will be used to render services to another Rosneft enterprise —RN-Stavropolneftegaz. It is the second complex of Belorusneft’s backfill department, which is used to provide oil industry services abroad. The first complex is now being used to perform services in Russia’s Samara region. Over there the Belarusian specialists had to start hydraulic fracturing operations in bad weather worsened by strong flooding. In the region they are supposed to carry out 22 hydraulic fracturing operations. Belorusneft also assists with the assimilation of modern oil recovery enhancement technologies at existing wells in some other parts of Russia as well as in Ukraine and Venezuela.