Talks with Lukoil on drilling second exploration well on Yalama probable in Sept

Natik Aliyev, the President of the SOCAR, informed Trend on Tuesday.

According to Aliyev, representatives of the Russian company are expected to visit Azerbaijan in this connection. "At present LUKOIL is carrying out appraisal of data obtained upon exploration well on Yalama. We have an agreement with the company on drilling the second well on this field.

Unfortunately, LUKOIL thinks the well drilling will not yield any result. However, the SOCAR is sure that it assumes special importance for achievement of new data on geology of the field, as it is an unknown zone for us,” he stressed.

The SOCAR President noted that if LUKOIL refuses to drill the second exploration well, the company will be obliged to pay compensation.

D-222 with the area of 3,037 sq km is part of Yalama prospect, the huge field in the northeast Caspian Sea, which lies in the Azerbaijani and Russian sections of the Caspian sea equally in a distance of 30km of the coast. The water depth in the area of Yalama field is from 80 to 700 meters.