2-month offshore drilling plan fulfilled

In January-February 2001, SOCAR drilled 21,975 meters, or 97.5% of the plan and 99.4% of last year’s.

13,543 meters were drilled offshore (110.7%) and 8,432 meters (81.8%) onshore.

The best performance (121.1%) was reached in exploratory drilling, with 1,272 meters drilled. Both off and onshore, the plan has been over-fulfilled by 2 and 46.7% respectively.

Production drilling constituted 20,703 meters (96.4%) thanks to excellent performance by offshore workers – 12,931 meters (111.2%). 7,772 meters were drilled onshore (78.9%).*