PETROLEUM INDUSTRY OF BASHKIR ASSR, FIRST HALF 1993

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• Publication Date: April 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
STATE
ARMY
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Petroleum industry,
HOW production, drilling
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow, Kishinev
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
DATE
PUBLISHED 16 Apr - 12 Jul 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
CD NO.
DATE OF
DATE D1ST. Z3 Apr 1954
NO. OF PAGES 4
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PETROLEUM INDUSTRY OF BASRKIR ASSR FIRST RALF 1953
PRODUCTION RECORD.-_ Moscow, Izvestiya,e1 May 53
On 29 April, the Bashneft' Association (S. I. Kuvykin, chief) fulfilled
the 4-month plan and the April plan for production of petroleum.
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 31 May 53
On 30 May, the Bashneft' Association fulfilled the 5-month plan for pro-
duction of petroleum. During 1953, the production of liquid fuel has grown
by 20.2 percent in comparison with the corresponding period of 1952.
Moscow, Pravda, 31 May 53
Oil Field No 5 of the Tuymazaneft' Trust already has fulfilled its yearly
obligations with respect to the production of above-plan fuel. During the first
5 month of 1953, the average daily production of petroleum at this field has in-
creased by 36 percent. [Base of comparison not expressed.)
Moscow, Izvestiya, 30 Jun 53
On 28 June, the Bashneft' Association fulfilled the half-year plan for pro-
duction of petroleum. During the first half 1953, the association increased its
production of petroleum by 21.5 percent in comparison with the first half 1952.
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Moscow, Trud, 30 Jun 53
On 29 June, the Tuymazaneft' Trust fulfilled the half-year plan for
production of petrolewn. During the first half 1953, the average daily
level of production in the trust increased by more than 30 percent. [Base
of comparison not expressed.]
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY -- Moscow, Trud, 16 Apr 53
Great savings in personnel in the Tuymazy oil fields have been effected
through the installation of equipment making automatic the production opera-
tions. For example, electrical winches have replaced manual winches.
The process of pumping petroleum from the gauging tanks in the vicinity of
the wells to the tank farm has been made automatic. Moreover, the compl cat.ed
problem of automatic regulation of the gas and oil pressure in the traps [prob-
ably gas and oil separators) has been solved.
Operations at Oil Field No 2 of the Tuymazaneft' Trust have been made al-
most fully automatic. As a result, each operator at this oil field services as
many as 8, 10, or even 12 oil wells.
i.e., the control of automatically operated dn oil l for the remote-, operation,
a central point, of Oil Field No 4 of the Tuymazaneft' an operator located at
out. This plan will be pugt into operation during neft' Trust has been worked
1953.
Moscow, Pravda, 22 May 53
With the assistance of scientific institutions,
ASSR have mastered advanced technology of exploiting petroleum deposits, in-
eluding the production of petroleum by contour floodi oil workers of the Bashkir
Institute, the Petroleum Institute of the Academy of Sciences USSR, and the Ufa
Petroleum Scientific Research institute are rendering important assistance in
perfecting a new technology or the refining of highly sulfurous petroleum.
However, despite the degree of cooperation which exists between the oil
producers and the scientific workers, there are shortcomings in the work of
certain scientific institutions.
Moscc:.?, Izvestiya, 7 Jul 53
Oktyabr'skiy, one of the youngest cities of the USSR, bus been given life
by oil workers who produce liquid fuel from Devonian deposits. The two-story
building of the administration of the Tuymazaneft' Trust stands along the cen-
tral part of Ulitsa Devonskaya, Oktyabr'skiy's main street.
Soon, all oil fields of the Tuymazaneft' Trust will be operated by the
remote-control method. The director of the Tuymazaneft' Trust is P. Galonskiy.
Oktyabr'skneftestroy [Oktyabr'skiy Trust for Construction of Petroleum
Enterprises?) has been slow in completing construction objectives in the city of
Oktyabr'skiy.
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Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 12 Jul 53
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after several years of production this flow of petroleum is diminishing.
Soviet scientists have discovered a means of restoring the flow. Along the
contour or periphery of the petroleum deposit, wells are drilled, and thou-
sands of cubic meters of water are pumped into the wells. This procedure
forces the petroleum to the surface.
The flooding of petroleum deposits, which was begun 5 years ago, has in-
creased the production of petroleum in the Tuymazy region by several times.
In addition, operational expenses have decreased and the cost of production
of petroleum has been lowered by three fourths.
DRILLING RECORD -- Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 29 Apr 53
Drillers c,' the Ishimbayneft' Trust fulfilled the 4-month plan ahead of
schedule.
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 31 May 53
The May drilling plan for the Bashneft' Association was fulfilled 2
days ahead of schedule.
DRILLING TECHNOLOGY -- Moscow, Trud, 12 May 53
Working on a forced system, Allayarov's drilling brigade of Drilling
Office No 2 of the Tuymazaburneft' [Tuymazy Petroleum Drilling?] Trust has
set a record drilling speed for the region of the Second Baku. The brigade's
speed of drilling was 1,837 meters per machine-month.
Working on the regular, or unforced, system, Gafarov's drilling brigade
of Drilling Office No 1 of the Tuymazaburneft' Trust has set a record drill-
ing speed. Using only one pump, the brigade completed the drilling of a
deep Devonian oil well in 30 days, instead of 67 days, the time required'by
the plan. This performance exceeded the old record speed for drilling under
an unforced system by 678 meters [per machine-month?]. The new record was
achieved using a turbodrill and employing water in place of the usual mud
solution.
Moscow, Pravda, 22 May 53
The All-Union Scientific Research Petroleum Institute is rendering as-
sistance to drillers of the Bashkir ASSR. A brigade of this institute, to-
gether'with workers of the Ufa Petroleum Scientific Research Institute, used
a new device, the turbotachometer, in conducting research of forced systems
of turbodrilling.
However, despite the cooperation which exists between scientific workers
and oil producers, there are shortcomings on the part of certain scientific
institutions. Last year, drilling innovators in the Bashkir ASSR introduced
a new and highly effective technology for drilling oil wells using water in
place of the usual mud solution. The advantages of the new technology were
so obvious that it was widely adopted by drilling brigades in the Tatar ASSR
and in the Kuybyshevskaya, Saratovskaya, and Molotovskaya oblasts.
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However, the new technology still possesses a series of unresolved prob.
lems and needs perfection. The Moscow Petroleum Institute and the petroleum
Institute of the Academy of Sciences USSR should have organized research im.
mediately in order to perfect the new technology. This effort would have
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water dinto b the production such as
horizon. However, until recently, it would seem that the institutes had not
been aware of the new drilling technology.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 7 Jun 53
on 6 June, Oorobet's drilling brigade of the Bashzapadnefterazvedka shki
West well Nor 46 ins hepretroleu ecordd t e Prospecting?) Thecbbrrigade dattarilling ined a s commercial
drilling speed of 2,082 meters per machine-month, which was seven times the
plan speed.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 16 JUn 53
On 14 June, Allayarov's drilling brigade [of Drilling office No 2 of the
Tuymazaburneft' Trust] completed the drilling per of oil well machine-No 793,month. The which bri-
was
drilled at a commercial speed of 2,385.6 meters
gade used water in place of the usual mud solution.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 7 Jul 53
Using a forced system of drilling, Allayarov's drilling brigade [of Drill-
ing Office No 2 of the Tuymazaburneft' Trust] completed the drilling of an oil
well to a depth of 1,653 meters in 27 days; using the regular drilling system,
Oafarov's drilling brigade [of Drilling Office No 1 of the Tuymazaburneft'
Trust] completed the drilling of a well to a similar depth in 31 days. Both
of these were record drilling speeds for the Bashkir ASSR, where drillers are
confronted with rock, not sand and clay. At Baku, one bit can drill a kilo-
meter, but in Bashkiriya, a bit lasts only 19 meters on an average.
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