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...Thus, at present, the drilling crew rivets no more than 5 sections of four-pipe per day. Meanwhile, in the past, the norm was considered to be 10-12 sections...
[43] ...As can be seen from the tables, in recent months – September-November, drilling has improved somewhat, footage has increased to 1.33 sazhens per machine-month against 0.8 s. for August; nevertheless, this footage is insignificant, since even at the beginning of the current year of 1920, footage per machine-month constituted, as indicated above, more than 5 sazhens, and in previous normal years of operation, it stood above 10 sazhens...

[44-45] ...In well-established drilling enterprises, there were always sufficient means of transportation, meanwhile, now transport is extremely insufficient, and the available horses are in many cases exhausted from a lack of forage...
...Meanwhile, our workshops serving drilling have an extremely limited number of craftsmen, and at the same time, machines, engines, machine tools, etc. are in dire need of repair, since in recent years they have hardly been repaired at all...
...Taking into account the reserves of OIL products in Baku by the end of the current navigation and our expected production in 1921, it is easy to see that with the expected export from Baku in 1921 of about 300 million poods of oil products in all directions, these reserves will be extremely insufficient for export to Russia in 1922. This circumstance requires searching for measures to increase our oil production, and moreover in
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the near future, for which it is necessary, in addition to resuming
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the operation of many wells that we have now been forced to stop due to the departure of workers, to also take measures to replenish the number of operating wells with new wells through intensified drilling. The reduced production and lack of success in work, in addition to the lack of workers, is also largely due to a lack of means of transportation...
[45] ...In addition, bearing in mind that the shortage of materials and workers, which, even despite the transfer of drilling to the shock group, is unlikely to be substantially eliminated, limits the scope of work on drilling, it is natural, when choosing sites for drilling, to limit oneself to the most productive sites or sites, although not particularly productive, but with shallow drilling, in which it is possible to obtain a large number of wells for operation in a relatively short time...
Based on the indicated provisions, it is proposed in 1921 to concentrate rotary drilling from two areas – Surakhani and Binagadi, where it was used almost exclusively, in the Surakhani area, as the most productive, bringing the number of operating rotary drilling rigs to 12 and rod rigs to 6 to complete drilling wells brought to a great depth.
|46| With these shock drilling positions and 12 rotary drilling rigs, it is proposed to drill about 10 thousand
deepeners in 1921, provided, of course, that the required number of workers and materials are available,” since most of the wells will be of great depths, therefore, with little footage and with significant auxiliary work that does not provide footage, such as plugging, pipe cutting, etc....