The Kela 2-5 Well of the Tarim Oilfield was reported on April 15 to have reached a cumulative natural gas production of 10.01 billion cubic meters, making it the seventh well in the Kela 2 Gas Field to produce more than 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
These seven wells enable the Kela 2 Gas Field to rank first in China in terms of average single-well output, further reinforcing its strategic role as the primary source of China’s West-East Gas Transmission Project.
Located at the northern edge of the Tarim Basin, the Kela 2 Gas Field was once considered an “exploration no-go zone” due to extremely challenging conditions such as ultra-high pressure and ultra-high temperatures underground.
Despite the challenges, the exploration team found a high-yield gas flow at the Kela 2 Well in 1998, which led to the discovery of the entire Kela 2 Gas Field, then China’s largest one with ultra-high pressure, ultra-high output and exceptionally high reserves. The discovery led to the launch of the West-East Gas Transmission Project. In December 2004, the Kela 2 Gas Field began production and started supplying gas to the project.
In recent years, experts at the Tarim Oilfield have made technological breakthroughs to stabilize production at the Kela 2 Gas Field, in an effort to meet the increasing gas needs of the eastern section of the West-East Gas Transmission Project, achieve high-quality development of the gas field and enhance the gas productivity.
The Kela 2 Gas Field is operated by 32 technicians, and each well is able to produce an average of 860,000 cubic meters of gas daily. In addition to the seven wells whose cumulative output surpasses 10 billion cubic meters each, the Kela 2 Gas Field also has 12 wells that have an accumulative gas output of over 1 billion cubic meters each.
(Executive editor: Zuo Shihan)
