Venezuela’s Junin-6 Speeds Up

摘要

PetroMiranda, a joint venture between aRussian consortium and Petroleos deVenezuela (PDV), aims to start drilling in theOrinoco Belt Junin-6 Block this year and be-gin producing in 2012.A source from the Russian National OilConsortium — which is led by GazpromNeft and includes Rosneft, Lukoil, TNK-BPand Surgutneftegas — told International OilDaily that drilling will start in December.The partners had said they intended to drill50 stratigraphic and horizontal wells in theblock by 2013 to evaluate reserves, but witha number of other Venezuelan projects alsorequiring drilling rigs, there had been con-cerns that work wouldn’t get going this year.