GOMEL, 3 May (BelTA) – The Belarusian oil industry company Belorusneft has started operations to enhance oil recovery in oil fields in Northern Caucasus, the company’s press service told BelTA.

In line with the contract the company will perform five hydraulic fracturing operations for OAO Grozneftegaz, one of the oil and gas extracting enterprises of Rosneft. The first operation of the kind was successfully completed several days ago.

After the company is done in Russia’s Chechnya, the equipment for hydraulic fracturing and salt-acid fracturing will be used to render services to another Rosneft enterprise — OOO RN-Stavropolneftegaz.

It is the second complex of Belorusneft’s backfill department, which is used to provide oil industry services abroad. The first complex is now being used to perform services in Russia’s Samara Oblast for the company TPP RITEK Samara Nafta, which is part of OAO RITEK. Over there the Belarusian specialists had to start hydraulic fracturing operations in bad weather worsened by strong flooding. In the region they are supposed to carry out 22 hydraulic fracturing operations.

Belorusneft also assists with the assimilation of modern oil recovery enhancement technologies at existing wells in some other parts of Russia as well as in Ukraine and Venezuela.

The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft was founded in 1966. The company specializes in the surveying, prospecting and development of oil fields, well drilling, oil and associated petroleum gas extraction in Belarus and a number of other countries.