Eclipse Former Top Driller in M-U Becomes Top Driller in Ukraine

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Oleg Tolmachev

For years we wrote about Oleg Tolmachev, chief driller at Eclipse Resources. He was the guy who figured out how to drill those record-breaking, super long onshore laterals–some of the longest on record (see our stories mentioning Oleg Tolmachev here). Eclipse was sold to, and merged in with, Montage Resources. Montage was then sold to and merged in with Southwestern Energy. Somewhere along the way Tolmachev departed. Some 16 months ago Tolmachev was hired by Ukraine to help that country figure out how to drill and frack wells so it can wean itself off Russian natural gas and oil. Prescient because Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Tolmachev and the company he works for, Naftogaz, is making an appeal to the U.S. and Canada to send technology, expertise, and most of all, money to help Ukraine begin its own fracking program.

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