Technology Roundtable: Wellbore Cementing
1. How do you measure and calculate the optimum properties for the cement/slurry which will be pumped down hole? Weatherford: Cement slurry design is based on the well data, such as bottom hole circulating temperature (BHCT), bottom hole static temperature (BHST), pore pressure and fracture gradient. Challenges faced by well …
Drilling Rigs’ Power Supply: Methods to Enhance The Reliability of The Drawworks Drive Power Supply
This article describes the power supply schemes that ‘UK ‘Tatburneft’ Ltd apply to different process equipment configurations. It also shows the commercial power supply schemes for the rigs with controlled and non-controlled main machinery electric drives. The article delivers the methods to enhance the reliability of the drawworks drive power …
Supervision Service Market in Russia: Providing Value for Money
Supervision as an element of management in the oil and gas industry originated in early 1990’s. Today almost all Russian oil companies utilize this management tool in drilling, well workover and seismic surveys. There are both private companies specializing in supervision services (so-called external supervision) and supervision departments in the …
LUKOIL Engineering: New Approaches for the 3D Modelling of the Varandey Field
The Varandey Field is an oil field located in the Nenets Autonomous District in the Arkhangelsk Region. This oil field belongs to Timan-Pechora Basin. The first well in the Varandey Field was drilled in 1974 and commercial oil production in this area started in 1985. At that time the first …
MWD & LWD In Russia: Current Status and Development Outlook Through 2025
Significant changes have happened in the drilling industry in the last decade. Every year the operations become more complex and the production and environmental safety requirements become more stringent. That is why the application of measuring-while-drilling (MWD) systems is becoming more important in the oilfield services market – information acquired …
Rosneft: New Approach to Well Logging Data in Horizontal and Deviated Wells
Horizontal and extended reach drilling has been steadily growing over the last decades. The geological and geophysical data acquired as a result of such drilling has traditionally been used to evaluate the quality of the drilled sediments. The total field and prospect parameters were obtained and calculated based on data …
Gazprom Neft: Production Projects
The development of new oil reservoirs is a priority for a company that claims leadership within their industry. Gazprom Neft develops new reservoirs on a project format basis. The company portfolio includes eight new projects. Each of these projects has a unique geographic, geological or climatic features. According to the …
Gazprom Neft: Arctic Routes
Prirazlomnoye Field Development Project: Transportation and Logistics Offshore production is an extremely challenging and resource-intensive process. It’s not just the construction of the complex process platform, from which the drilling is performed and where people involved in the field’s development live and work. It is the establishment of the continuous …
Kazakhstan: A Market of Possibilities for Russian Oilfield Service Companies
In August, 2016 the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan shared its plans for abandonment of 126 offshore Caspian wells before 2019. And this is just the tip of the issue. The majority of the countries land wells are out-of-date and their rate of decline is accelerating. In Kazakhstan, it is …
NovosibirskNIPIneft: Constructing the Smart Field
Abstract In this paper the issues of obtaining and processing data for various concepts behind the smart fields were reviewed. It gave consideration to the major issue of establishing feedback mechanisms to manage hydrocarbon production and key resources in the field, that is, the data reliability issue. The paper demonstrates …