Cerro Negro Development: A Success Story...From Inception To Execution ...
Abstract. The Cerro Negro project, located in the Orinoco oil belt of Eastern Venezuela, first began in 1997 with the drilling of an appraisal program and the longest horizontal section ever drilled in Venezuela. This startup led to a 1½ year drilling campaign that resulted in 121 drilled and completed wells, and up to 129,000 BOPD (UCO) flowing down the pipeline. New technologies in drilling ...