KDR 2017 Event Review and Overview
21st September 2017 Palace of Independence, Astana The 3rd KDR, Well Engineering Forum, the unique drilling and production conference held in direct partnership with JSC NC KazMunayGas and its Scientific Research Institute for Drilling and Production (SRI PDT), recently took place at the Palace of Independence in Astana on the 21st September. …
Closure Interview, Gary Wu, Managing Director, Dynamic Technologies (DTCC)
Please describe your role at DTCC and your responsibilities? I have been the Managing Director since the company was founded in 2000 in Calgary, Canada. My partner Jack Feng, Vice President of DTCC is more focused on the R&D and manufacturing and I am more on the marketing and sales. …
The ROGTEC Interview: Oleg Karpushin, Executive Vice-President for Production, Exploration and Oil Field Services, JSC NC KazMunayGas
1. Firstly, congratulations on your new role and position at JSC NC KazMunayGas. For our readers, can you please describe your new position and your areas of responsibilities? Thank you. From June 12th, I have taken up the position of the Executive Vice-President for production, exploration and oil field services. …
Gazprom Neft: Production Line, Production Drivers and Prospective Assets
Having launched two major projects, Messoyakha and Novy Port, Gazprom Neft has created a solid basis for development in the north of YNAO, and for production growth in the coming years. However, today the Company is focusing on other regions and trends. This includes both of the projects in the …
Rosneft: Managed Pressure Drilling in Low Pressure Formations
The main objectives and results of the first MPD trial job in the Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye field are presented in this article. Based on the result of this job the conclusion for this technologies utilization in highly fractured carbonate formation can be assessed. The utilization of this technology is focused on increasing …
SPD: Horizontal Wells
Salym Petroleum Development (SPD) is a Joint venture formed by a 50/50 partnership between Shell and Gazprom Neft to extract oil from the Cherkashin Formation in Western Siberia via three oilfields. The company operates 4 drilling rigs, 1 mobile sidetrack rig, 17 worker hoists and 6 wireline units in a …
Technology Roundtable: Drilling Fluids
1. Drilling-fluid selection remains one of the most important components of a successful well-construction operation. This results in a complicated product/system selection process. What is the optimal way to select the correct fluids for a well? Kaz M-I SWACO: Alongside many other engineering problems, selection of a wise and optimal …
RPI: Rapid Growth Expected in Russia’s Horizontal Directional Drilling Services Market
Despite two major economic downturns, the Russian oilfield services market grew by 370% to 1.14 trillion rubles from 2006 to 2016. In this period, HD and sidetracking were in many respects the key market drivers, as it will be for the next ten years. As a result, this will lead …
Technical Regulations for Measuring Instrumentation for Logging Operations
Introduction Well construction is a complicated process from an engineering point of view involving a number of tasks relating to a wide range of technologies. In the most cases, each task is performed using a separate tool not related to the others. So a lot of data is used inefficiently …
VCNG: Proppant Optimisation in the Low Temperature Verkhnaya-Chona Field
This article discusses the initial results of the low-temperature proppant chemical consolidation technology testing after fracking at low temperatures in the Verkh-nechonsky field of Verkhnechonskneftegaz. The tests showed the following effects: a decrease in proppant backflow during completion and operation of the well; increase in ESP time between failures; decrease …