According to Salym executive director Simon Durkin, the primary focus is to determine whether chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) will produce good results on the company’s three fields in West Siberia.

Salym’s group of three fields — West Salym, Upper Salym and Vadelyp — together produce about 170,000 barrels per day.

However, the company expects this plateau output to start declining within the next 12 months.

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