Russian gas explorer Volga says it expects to produce more than 560,000 cubic metres per day from from its Vostochny Makarovskoye field.
The company, which is looking for permission from Russian authorities to expand its Dobrinskoye gas plant, completed flow tests after a workover on the first of its five wells at the site.
“Management now estimates that the sustainable production capacity from the five existing wells on the VM and Dobrinskoye fields currently exceeds 560,000 cubic metres per day,” said chief executive Mikhail Ivanov.
“We are close to completing the latter stages of the upgrade to our gas processing plant and hope to achieve permitting for running the plant at a planned maximum capacity of up to one million cubic metres per day.
“Further development drilling on the VM field will be planned to maximize capacity utilization and we are preparing documentation in order to be able to drill wells VM3 and 5 in 2014.”