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Latest Russian & CIS O&G News: Tue, 21 May 2013 Rosneft Takes Management Decisions Rosneft has taken important decisions as part of the principal stage of TNK-BP integration, as a result of which the united Company improved efficiency of its corporate structure and introduced unifor... Full story » Tue, 21 May 2013 Stroygazkonsalting, SGM and Stroynovatsiya will meet at the conference “NEFTEGAZSTROY 2013″ The IIIrd Annual International Conference «Construction in oil and gas complex» will be held 28th May in Moscow in the Intercontinental Moscow Tverskaya hotel. The conference «NEFTEGAZSTROY» will ... Full story » Mon, 20 May 2013 More than 150 companies from 12 countries join us at RAO/CIS Offshore 2013 at this moment Conference and Exhibition RAO / CIS Offshore 2013 bring together the key players of oil and gas industry. National companies, engineering and service contractors, R&D institutes will present prior... Full story » Mon, 20 May 2013 Tatneft Is among Companies of High Social Efficiency TATNEFT was awarded a diploma for the third place in the category “For participation in resolving social problems of territories and development of the corporate philanthropy” by the resul... Full story » Mon, 20 May 2013 Gazprom activities require technologies as sophisticated as space ones A meeting of the Gazprom Sci-Tech Council (STC) took place today in Saint Petersburg in the course of the III St. Petersburg International Gas Forum. The meeting was moderated by Alexey Miller�... Full story » Fri, 17 May 2013 Alexey Miller and Henning Voscherau considered the progress with the South Stream project realization The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller Chairman of the Management Committee and Henning Voscherau, Chairman of South Stream Transport Board of Directors. E... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Gazprom Neft reports unaudited IFRS 1Q 2013 financial results Gazprom Neft today announces its unaudited consolidated financial results for 1Q 2013, which have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The company’s f... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Rosneft to Strenghten Cooperation with PetroVietnam OJSC Oil Company Rosneft (Rosneft) and Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation “PetroVietnam” (PetroVietnam) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Sochi to strengthen cooperation between the... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Max Petroleum Drilling Update Max Petroleum Plc, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Kazakhstan, is pleased to announce that the ZMA-E6 development well in the Zhana Makat Field has successfully reached a ... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 GE Oil & Gas Increases Asia Pacific Subsea Production GE Oil & Gas Expands Batam Subsea Manufacturing Facilities, Adding High Bay Workshop for First Asia Pacific Production of Vertical Subsea Trees JAKARTA, INDONESIA—May 15, 2013—GE (NYSE: GE) to... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Exterran Announces Grand Opening of Fort Worth Operations Services Center Exterran celebrated the grand opening of its new Operations Services Center (OSC) in Fort Worth, Texas, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony today. Located at 2100 Great Southwest Parkway, the Fort Worth si... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Schlumberger Delivers Enterprise Knowledge Management for IT Professionals Schlumberger today announced the release of Studio* Manager, which delivers information management capabilities for the Studio E&P knowledge environment. Studio Manager allows information manageme... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Alliance Oil Company Production Update Alliance Oil Company’s preliminary average daily oil and gas production for April 2013 amounted to 65,743 barrels of oil equivalent (boepd)[i]. In April 2013, preliminary average refining volumes at... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Rosneft and KAMAZ Plan to Expand Use of Gas as Motor Fuel OJSC Rosneft and OJSC KAMAZ signed an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation to expand use of natural gas as motor fuel The largest oil and gas company and a leading Russian truck manuf... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Licence Extension Approval for Max Petroleum Max Petroleum Plc, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Kazakhstan, is pleased to announce that it has received final regulatory approval of a two-year extension of the explora... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Surgutneftegas Reports Operating Results for April 2013 In April 2013, Surgutneftegas produced about 5.043 mn tonnes of crude oil, at the previous year level (5.034 mn tonnes). Within the fourth month of the current year, crude output in the Republic of Sa... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 KazMunaiGaz Q1 Financial Results KazMunaiGas Exploration Production Q1 2013 Financial Results JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production announces its condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the three months ended ... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Construction of Kazachya compressor station starts The construction of the Kazachya compressor station (CS) started today in the Krasnodar Territory. At the moment, the foundation is being built for the station facilities. Start of CS construc... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Almetyevneft Has Produced a 600 Millionth Ton of Crude Oil “Almetyevneft” Oil and Gas Production Board (NGDU), which is one of the leading divisions of JSC TATNEFT, has produced a 600 millionth ton of crude oil since its foundation. The ceremonial... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Rosneft to Strenghten Cooperation with PetroVietnam Oil Company Rosneft (Rosneft) and Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation “PetroVietnam” (PetroVietnam) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Sochi to strengthen cooperation between the two ... Full story » Thu, 16 May 2013 Rosneft Sign Cooperation Agreements for Expanded Use of Gas Engine Fuel Rosneft signed several agreements to boost the gas engine fuel market after the meeting held by the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi dedicated to future use of gas engine fuel. President of ... Full story » Mon, 13 May 2013 Putin Defends Russia’s Unconventional Gas Stance By Kevin Godier As a number of countries across the world step up their unconventional oil and gas development, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that his country has not fallen behind its ... Full story » Mon, 13 May 2013 Fitch Affirms Russia’s Bashneft at ‘BB’; Revises Outlook to Positive Fitch Ratings has affirmed Russia’s Joint Stock Oil Company Bashneft (Bashneft) Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at ’BB’. The Outlooks have been revis... Full story » Mon, 13 May 2013 Tatneft: Figures Demonstrating Results of Operations in April and for Four Months of 2013 Crude Oil Production The amount of 2,144,224 tons of crude oil was produced at JSC TATNEFT in April (100.8 percent versus a similar period of the previous year) with the above-the-plan production in t... Full story » Mon, 13 May 2013 May 28th problems of oil and gas construction will be discussed in Moscow The IIIrd Annual International Conference «Construction in oil and gas complex» will be held 28th May in Moscow in the Intercontinental Moscow Tverskaya hotel. The conference «NEFTEGAZSTROY» will ... Full story » Thu, 09 May 2013 Aker Arctic Brings Heavy Duty Oblique Ice Breaker to Market With construction underway on the first ever Oblique Icebreaker, research specialist Aker Arctic Technology has unveiled a new version of the unique vessel type that will bring ice management and po... Full story » Read More Industry News » Current issue Featured Article: TNK BP: Unconventional Sources of Hydrocarbons: Shale Bubble or Shale Revolution? » Unconventional hydrocarbons are a controversial topic, with opinions ranging from euphoric announcements of a "shale revolution" to highly sceptical expert reviews characterizing that phenomenon as a "shale bubble". If a company wants to avoid falling victim to a potential breakthrough turning into a bubble, it needs to be prepared and arm itself, above all, with technology... Current issue Articles: TNGG: Structure and Stratification of Triassic-Jurassic Formations in the Northern Part of Western Siberia PART 2 » Continuing the article from TNNG on the formation and structure of Western Siberia basin. The transition from the well data to the seismic data requires obtaining the information about the seismic wave's distribution speed in the deep horizons of the mantle... VNIIGAZ: The Fundamental Problems of Basin and Oil and Gas Formation Creation » Larger-scale fundamental research is intensifying on the issues of sedimentary basins' formation, their evolution and the possibilities for advanced forecasting of large, possibly even non-conventional petroleum accumulation zones... Exploring for Shale ‘Sweet Spots’ » Not a week seems to go by nowadays without an international ‘deal’ for the exploration for unconventional resources being announced in the ‘trade press’. So, for example, Exxon and Rosneft are about to start exploring the Bazhenov shale in Russia, Ukraine and Shell have just announced a $10bn agreement for the exploitation of shale resources ... The ROGTEC Interview: Prem Ballabh Pandey, CEO of Imperial Energy » Prem BallabhPandey talks to ROGTEC magazine, discussing Imperial Energy's buyout by ONGC Videsh, future reservoir plays, oilfield service services and shale development. "Basically my objectives have been to find new ways and technologies to improve productivity of the existing fields and identify new plays which can add to the economically viable production of Imperial Energy."... RPI Reports: The Number of Offshore Subsoil Users Should Be Increased » There is a significant obstacle in the path to serious change in the existing approach to offshore operation licensing, which de-facto grants access exclusively to Gazprom and Rosneft, with third party operators playing only junior partner roles. The obstacle is the positions of Gazprom and Rosneft themselves... last issue Articles : ROGTEC Technology Roundtable: Wellbore Cleanout Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Halliburton discuss the use and implementation of wellbore cleanout solutions in Russia. Read this article to find out their thoughts on the state of the industry, applications in mature and new fields, cost reward benefits, open and cased hole environments plus much more… The ROGTEC Interview: Simon Durkin, Chief Executive Officer, Salym Petroleum Development » Simon Durkin talks to ROGTEC magazine, discussing Salym Petroleum Development's current and future objectives, strategies, projects and technologies. In 2013 it will be 10 years since the start of the Salym project. Over those 10 years we started from nothing and have built a major modern oil production facility at the Salym fields... LUKoil: Multi Zone Hydro Fracturing » LUKoil looks at and reviews it past present and current fracturing plans. With 450 wells planned to be fractured and potential 3 fold increases in production, this is a vital technology for the company... TNK-BP: Dual Completion Projects » Studies by the Tyumen Petroleum Research Centre (TNNC) show that TNK-BP is failing to take full advantage of the major benefits that could be gained by applying dual completion (DC) technology at its oil fields. Each of the Company's target subsidiaries (TS) has encountered its own specific difficulties when it comes to deploying dual completions... RPI: The Development of the Russian Arctic Shelf and the Need for Accelerated Development Part 2 » In the first few months of 2012 Russian federal authorities took a number of steps to make offshore operations more attractive to investors, primarily in the country's most promising Arctic sector. Development of the Program can be seen as just one of the ways in which the Russian government tries to accelerate development of the nation's offshore hydrocarbon reserves... Exploration: Hot Spots, Hot Rocks, Emerging Themes » David Bamford continues his series of articles looking to the global exploration picture "Undoubtedly, the Arctic will occupy industry's efforts for some time but in my humble opinion, we will see a return to Onshore exploration, as we realise that we truly do have the technology to turn any discovered resources into reserves, no matter at what depth and in what rock they are found... TNNG: Structure and Stratification of Triassic-Jurassic Formations in the Northern Part of Western Siberia » The analysis of deep and ultradeep drilling data, regional and areal CMP seismic data carried out with increased study depth over the recent years at Gydan peninsula and Yenisei-Khatanga regional trough (YKRT) territory, made it possible to establish that there are troughs up to 15 km deep… TNK-BP: Dual Completion Projects » Dual completion (DC) systems can dramatically improve the economic efficiency of TNK-BP's investments, ensure optimal management and development of reservoirs, and minimize environmental impact. TNK-BP has gained extensive experience in testing dual completion technology and the scope of their application can be expected to broaden in the coming years… Closure Interview: Dmitry Gilev, Regional Strategic Account Director, IHS » In the series of Closure interviews, ROGTEC Magazine talks to Dmitry Gilev of IHS Energy. 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