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Prirazlomnoye Field Development Project: Transportation and Logistics Offshore production is an extremely challenging and resource-intensive process. It’s not just the construction of the complex process platform, from which the drilling is performed and where people involved in the field’s development live and work. It is the establishment of the continuous …

In August, 2016 the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan shared its plans for abandonment of 126 offshore Caspian wells before 2019. And this is just the tip of the issue. The majority of the countries land wells are out-of-date and their rate of decline is accelerating. In Kazakhstan, it is …

Abstract In this paper the issues of obtaining and processing data for various concepts behind the smart fields were reviewed. It gave consideration to the major issue of establishing feedback mechanisms to manage hydrocarbon production and key resources in the field, that is, the data reliability issue. The paper demonstrates …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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, …

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 …