Gulf Drilling Azerbaijan, which is a subsidiary service company of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Gulf Drilling Supply FZE in Azerbaijan, held a presentation of a new drilling rig.
Drilling rig ZJ-20 is made by order of company in China with the latest technology and fully financed by foreign investment.
Rig is capable of drilling on land-based oil and gas fields at a depth of 2000-2400 meters, and carrying out capital repairs on older wells to a depth of 4,500 meters. The nominal capacity of the installation is 120 tons. Engine power is 450 kW or 610 horsepower, tower height is 35 meters.
Rig imported to Azerbaijan in early August installed in the territory of “Ramana” field, where the well will be drilled. The company has already determined the amount of work for the installation. First, the installation will be carried out drilling on request of AzGerneft LLC. This year, two wells will be drilled for the company next year – four wells.
“In the future the drilling rig will be used not only in Ramana, but also on other fields. The rig costs 5 million manats (AZN),” Ilham Babayev, Director of Gulf Drilling company, said at the presentation.
One of the main advantages of the installation is that it is compact and mobile, and if necessary transportation from one field to another is easily dismantled.
Gulf Drilling Azerbaijan has started working in Azerbaijan at the end of 2007.
Since 2008 till September 1, 2015 the company has drilled 207 wells on “Surakhani”, “Balakhani”, Binagadi, Mishovdag and “Ramana” fields and the offshore field Oguz.
Currently, the company Gulf Drilling Azerbaijan conducts drilling of 5 wells of “Surakhani”, “Balakhani” and “Ramana” oil fields.