Energy Global: ORLEN Upstream and Tenaris find solutions for shale well in Poland

Oil and gas companies have been actively exploring the contact zone between the East European Craton and the west of the European Platform since the 1970s. The vast majority of the operations led in this area have so far involved conventional wells. Today the target has changed. Hydrocarbon exploration is focused on finding unconventional reservoirs that can be economically viable.

The operating company ORLEN Upstream, a subsidiary of PKN ORLEN, the largest crude oil refining company in Poland, is exploring complex Lublin Basin assets that extend under Poland and Ukraine. The operator had drilled several vertical wells and two horizontal ones before taking the challenge on drilling Stoczek-OU1K horizontal well. The aim of this new project was to explore the gas accumulation and producing capability in the Lower Silurian and Ordovician shale deposits.
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