RN-Nyaganneftegaz: Well Intervention Candidate Selection at the Krasnoleninskoe Field
One of the major tasks of the oil and gas field development is to maximize the oil recovery factor (ORF) at minimal cost. The solutions adopted in the field development design need to be optimized, taking into account the actual reservoir performance. Well intervention is a prime tool to improve …
Novatek STC: EPCM – The Challenges Facing Russia’s Engineering Companies
Alexey Yazkov, NOVATEK STC (This material reflects the personal views of the author) The engineering market along with the engineering companies are currently undergoing a painful transition from an earlier Soviet created system of providing engineering services through the sectoral institutions. With the customer being the government represented by government …
Electrical Equipment & Controls for Top Drive Systems
O. V. Nikulin, Lead Power Engineer, Tatburneft Management Company, PhD V. A. Shabanov, Professor, Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, PhD The top drive system (TDS), an oil and gas drilling technology, is becoming very widespread lately. Both imported and domestic drilling rigs are equipped with such a system. Basically, the …
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 …