Deloitte: Overview of the Russian Oil Services Market
The Russian oilfield services market saw the key trends from previous years holding strong in 2018. Even though the market still faces serious barriers to development and unresolved issues persist, several factors have emerged that could drive the growth of key industry indicators, and consequently, boost its investment attractiveness. As …
Gazprom Neft: Integrated Well Completion Systems for Gas Cap Drive Reservoirs
Introduction One of the main tasks of the modern oil production industry is to efficiently manage the production of the remaining recoverable reserves, the major part of which are confined to gas cap drive reservoirs and oil rims. Such reserves are challenging to develop, and in many cases, they are not …
Why Collaboration has a Higher Impact on Business Performance than Technology
For Part One of this article click HERE Why Collaboration Geosteering requires sophisticated technologies, access to relevant data (streamed real time data and model derived data) and most importantly, collaboration of geosteering team members. Whilst the first two components of geosteering have broadly been described, analysed in depth and their …
Tim’s Theorem: A New Paradigm for Underground Hydrodynamics Part 1
“On nonlocality of Reasons” “Isolated systems do not exist, and all systems even split by huge distances into parts with no signals, fields, mechanical forces, energy, etc. between them function like a consistent System”. John Stuart Bell 1928 – 1990. The article continues the publications [1, 5, 8…11], and supplies …
RPI: Forecasted Production Targets Unachievable Without Intensive New Drilling
Decree No. 2914-p “On Approval of the Strategy for Development of the Mineral Raw Material Base of the Russian Federation until 2035” was issued by the Government of Russia on December 22, 2018. This document obliged the Ministry of Natural Resources “To develop and approve an action plan to implement …
Technology Roundtable: Top Drives
1. Through 2018 we have seen an ever increasing demand for Top Drives throughout the Russian Federation. What do you feel are the key factors which have driven top drive adoption in the region over the last few years? National Oilwell Varco: Increase of directional drilling, increase of safety requirements …
Introducing Geosteer Well On Paper™ A New Important Step in the Well Delivery Process
How the Planning Phase can Foreshadow Geosteering Failure The success of any geosteering process is determined at the planning stage. This article will present the most crucial aspects of well planning which directly impact the effectiveness and efficiency of the geosteering process while drilling. These critical matters, often overlooked or …
Supervision Management: Divide & Conquer!
This article is the final installment of a series of ROGTEC articles (1,4) and is devoted to oil related services and managing well construction, well services and workover, and supervising services. We are going to cover the modern trend of managerial supervising, which has emerged due to transition of most …
Identifying and Recording Drill Pipe Operating Time Using RFID Tags
This article describes a prototype of an information system that allows you to track the movement of drill pipes, record their current physical wear, as well as the accumulation of fatigue damage using RFID technology. Drill pipes are one of the most capital-intensive cost items for any drilling enterprise. Costs …
Mud Motor: Design and Technological Advantages for Complex Drilling Conditions
A mud motor refers to the type of positive-displacement rotary hydraulic power units and is widely used to create wells of various depths and directions. The first developments were made as far back in the 60s of the last century, however, mud motors were put into active commercial operation much …