ROGTEC on the Road!
As always – it has been a busy spring and early summer for the ROGTEC “On the Road” team, sponsoring and partnering with the region´s leading events to ensure maximum awareness for our advertisers. This year, the team travelled across the region ensuring ROGTEC had significant exposure at all the …
Closure Interview: Colin Duff, Director, Hardbanding Solutions
Colin Duff, Director of Hardbanding Solutions, can you tell us what is the current level of demand for hardbanding in Russia? More than 35% of the drill pipe manufactured in Russia is now delivered with hardbanding applied, compared to less than 10% only a few years ago. When you add the …
Verkhnechonskoye: Reducing Horizontal Well Construction Times
The construction time of a horizontal well at the Verkhnechonskoye oil and gas condensate field has been significantly reduced thanks to drilling a 178-mm production casing interval in a single run using the QuadCombo logging suite. The Verkhnechonskoye field keeps embracing optimization of well drilling and construction. To date, the …
Technology Roundtable: Lost Circulation
1. In which regions of Russia are lost circulation issues consistently found? Halliburton: In the current economic conditions, many oil companies focus on the development of mature fields. As a rule, such fields have well-developed infrastructure, and their investments have long ago paid off . However, the other side of …
Downhole Monitoring of Smart Wells
The objective of production well flow performance and other parameter monitoring is to optimize oil and gas production. The article describes the concept of continuous downhole monitoring of operating well perforation intervals. This can be achieved through the use of a permanent instrument capable of measuring flow parameters (temperature, pressure, …
RPI: Difficult Times Ahead
Early in February 2016, the Central Dispatch Administration of Fuel and Energy Complex (CDAFEC) published official statistical data confirming the estimates of industry experts, who last autumn predicted a 3-4% decline in production in Western Siberia in 2015. This has affected virtually all vertically integrated oil companies in this traditional …
Gazprom Neft: Fracturing Jobs
Twenty years ago the company performed its first hydraulic fracturing on the testing ground Noyabrskneftegaz’s Karamovskoye field. Since then, the hydraulic fracturing technique has become ever-more sophisticated: today it allows Gazprom Neft to not only stimulate production in Gazprom Neft fields, but also focus on development of challenging reserves. First …
New Achievements in Multilateral Drilling and Completions in Western Siberia, Part 2
Engineering and Multilateral Drilling and Construction of ERD Wells at the Yurkhar OGCF Drilling Mud Oil-based mud (OBM) was successfully used at the Yurkhar OGCF as well as within the wells being considered in this article. Below is the list of their advantages, which enabled the re-placement of traditional, regional, …
New Achievements in Multilateral Drilling and Completions in Western Siberia, Part 1
CJSC “Investgeoservice” Damir Tuktarov, General Director; CJSC “Investgeoservice” Artur Gulov, Project Manager; JSC “NOVATEK” Evgeny Glebov, Deputy Director, Technology Department of Boreholes Technologies and Supervising; JSC “NOVATEK” Ivan Shokarev, Deputy Head, Technology Department of Downhole Borehole Technologies and Supervising; LLC “NOVATEK-Yurkharovneftegas” Alexander Kurasov, Deputy General Director – Drilling, Head of …
Gazprom Neft Launches an Ambitious Programme to Improve Drilling Efficiency – The Technological Frontier
Sofia Zorina, Gazprom Neft Andre Ragouline, Vice President, RLG International Inc. Artem Borisov, Project Manager, RLG International Inc. Being technologically advanced is not just about using modern equipment and performing complex operations. It is also about the proper corporate culture which allows the organization to operate with maximum efficiency. Soon …