Technology Roundtable: Power Generation
Organising power generation for an oilfield used to be a simple case of purchasing a power supply. Nowadays this has evolved into choosing a turnkey, specifically designed technology solution. Do you agree with this? How do you tailor your solutions for your customer’s needs? Caterpillar Oil & Gas: Our customers’ needs have evolved over …
Russian Drilling Market: A Paradigm Shift
In all likelihood, the year 2014 will go down on record as a turning point for the Russian drilling market. New trends have been seen on this market for the first time in several years, i.e. a decline in the scope of total drilling instead of growth that was recorded …
Gazprom & Russian Gas Production Overview & Future Developments
In the first part of this article, we look at reserves and major projects for the Russian upstream gas sector. In part 2, to be published in the next issue of ROGTEC Magazine, the article will conclude by looking at the production outlook, including market risks. One of the conundrums …
Udmurtneft: Application of Fibre Glass Tubing
Introduction The fields at Udmurtneft are at the late stage of development, which is characterised by a high water cut and also the corrosiveness of the produced fluid, which are the main reasons for a considerable number of downhole pumping equipment failures caused by corrosion. The use of fresh surface …
SPD Implements Innovative Self Healing Pipe Dope Technology
Salym Petroleum Development (SPD), a 50/50 joint venture of Shell and Gazprom Neft companies, collaborates closely with Shell Global Solutions (SGS) on the realization of new technologies in the Salym group of oil fields. SPD is renowned in the West Siberian oil and gas industry to be a leading incubator …
Drillmec Conference: AHEAD & HoD
TMG Worldwide was proud to host a turnkey, privately organized conference for Drillmec S.p.A. in central Moscow, on the 28th October, “The Drillmec Russian Technology Conference”. The Drillmec Russian Technology Conference, held at the Kempinski Baltschug, is one of Moscow´s most famous and prestigious 5 Star venues and was the …
The ROGTEC Interview: Mikhail Vilkov, Deputy General Director – Chief Engineer of RBU Russia, ERIELL Group
A year ago, ERIELL Group broke a number of records in drilling the first 1km horizontal well at the the Urengoyskoye oil and gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. The well was drilled in the Achim deposits. During drilling, we broke our own records for both drilling time …
ROGTEC on the Road!
The ROGTEC Magazine team were all over the region this autumn, exhibiting/distributing the latest issue at the leading events such as SPE Moscow, Sakhalin O&G, SPE Caspian, NGK, RPI and we were proud to be the only mainstream Russian magazine to have attend the KIOGE event in Almaty with a …
ROGTEC on the Road!
RDCR 2014, UOR 2014, NEFTEGAZ, 21st WPC and Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition It has been an interesting summer for the team at ROGTEC Magazine, and as always we pride ourselves on ensuring that we have “boots on the ground” at all the key regional conferences and exhibitions. It must …
TNGG: APG Utilization at Russian Oil Fields
M. N. Gagarin (LLC TyumenNIIgiprogaz) In the Russian Market, there are almost no widely available cheap technologies to collect and process associated petroleum gas, or APG. Similar technologies and projects can be found abroad, but these can be very expensive and would also need to be adjusted to Russian climatic …