Technology Roundtable: Intelligent Well Completions
1. Intelligent well completions or ‘smart’ wells enable operators to acquire data, monitor and remotely control well operations for maximum productivity. What is the degree of this technology implementation in Russia and what operators are currently using it? Weatherford: Intelligent well completion is an integrated package featuring complex design and including …
Gazprom Neft’s Future Development Stratagies
Gazprom Neft’s resource base development strategy determines the company’s strategic target – an increase in production to 100 mln t/y by 2020 and to maintain this level of production in future. “A 100 mln t/y production is a strategic target that Gazprom Neft shall achieve by 2020”. This target has …
Verkhnechonskoye: Scale Management and Inhibition
You could say that the first major day of oil production in Eastern Siberia was the first batch of oil produced from the Verkhnechonskoye Oil and Gas Condensate Field (VCNG), which is located in the north of the Irkutsk Oblast. But as the VCNG development progressed, processes limiting the oil …
Samaraneftegas: Hydrogel Based Mud in Direction and Horizontal Wells
The deposits of the Volga-Ural basin and, in particular, the Samara Region are mainly represented by anhydrites, greenish-gray and brown siltstone, and marl. The interlaying shale deposits become unstable and disintegrate when exposed to the drilling mud. Intense disintegration gives rise to a number of drilling problems. When drilling directional …
Closure Interview, Christian Goy, Sales Manager Mining, Oil & Gas at MTU Friedrichshafen
Please describe your position and role within MTU Friedrichshafen As Sales Manager for Mining, Oil & Gas I am in charge of direct and indirect sales of our mining, Oil and Gas equipment in the CIS market. MTU Friedrichshafen is part of Rolls Royce, manufactures diesel and gas engines and propulsion systems …
Gazprom Neft Shelf: Prilazlomnoye Field Development
Gazprom Neft has added a new chapter to the history of Russian Arctic exploitation by developing the Prilazlomnoye field in the Pechora Sea. The past, present and future of the project are discussed in this piece. Upshot of Decision Today the Prilazlomnoye field development project, on the shelf of the Pechora Sea, …
Technology Roundtable: Brownfield Development
1. In comparison to the total activity in Russia, how important is brownfield development at the moment? Weatherford: The majority of Russia’s oilfields are brownfields with high water cut. Nevertheless, these assets are responsible for most of the local oil production. With the decline in oil prices and subsequent decline …
RN-Nyaganneftegaz: Well Intervention Candidate Selection at the Krasnoleninskoe Field
One of the major tasks of the oil and gas field development is to maximize the oil recovery factor (ORF) at minimal cost. The solutions adopted in the field development design need to be optimized, taking into account the actual reservoir performance. Well intervention is a prime tool to improve …
Novatek STC: EPCM – The Challenges Facing Russia’s Engineering Companies
Alexey Yazkov, NOVATEK STC (This material reflects the personal views of the author) The engineering market along with the engineering companies are currently undergoing a painful transition from an earlier Soviet created system of providing engineering services through the sectoral institutions. With the customer being the government represented by government …
Electrical Equipment & Controls for Top Drive Systems
O. V. Nikulin, Lead Power Engineer, Tatburneft Management Company, PhD V. A. Shabanov, Professor, Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, PhD The top drive system (TDS), an oil and gas drilling technology, is becoming very widespread lately. Both imported and domestic drilling rigs are equipped with such a system. Basically, the …