Discovery of the Pobeda Field Confirmed

State commission on reserves confirmed the fact of discovery of the new arctic oil and gas field Pobeda on the Kara sea shelf. The field was discovered as the result of the drilling of the northernmost well in the world – the Universitetskaya-1 well.

The expert commission accepted the fact of discovery of the Pobeda field and advised FSI RPE Rosgeolfond to register the oil and gas field Pobeda on government accounting with recoverable reserves of 130 mln tons of oil and 499 bcm of gas.

The gas reserves were discovered in the chalk deposits of Cenomanian Age and Apt-Alb Age, the oil reserves were discovered in the Jurassic sediments.