Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Technologies

26 hazardous wells were eliminated in 2018

Public contract settled for 3 years was concluded in 2017 between holding company NPZ Nedra and federal agency on natural resources management. According to the conditions, main goal is inspection and conduct of elimination works if environmental hazard is detected.

Main task is improving ecological situation in RF regions, related to anthropogenic influence of wells drilled for oil and gas extraction by governmental program.

More than 200 potentially hazardous areas in RF were inspected in 2018. Most of them are situated in Krasnodar region, elimination works are planned for 2019.

The data on 500 wells indexes was specified, complex register was filled in with 5500 facilities. Elimination of 25 wells and conduct of supplementary inspection of 50 facilities is planned for 2019.