New Achievements in Multilateral Drilling and Completions in Western Siberia, Part 2
Engineering and Multilateral Drilling and Construction of ERD Wells at the Yurkhar OGCF Drilling Mud Oil-based mud (OBM) was successfully used at the Yurkhar OGCF as well as within the wells being considered in this article. Below is the list of their advantages, which enabled the re-placement of traditional, regional, …
New Achievements in Multilateral Drilling and Completions in Western Siberia, Part 1
CJSC “Investgeoservice” Damir Tuktarov, General Director; CJSC “Investgeoservice” Artur Gulov, Project Manager; JSC “NOVATEK” Evgeny Glebov, Deputy Director, Technology Department of Boreholes Technologies and Supervising; JSC “NOVATEK” Ivan Shokarev, Deputy Head, Technology Department of Downhole Borehole Technologies and Supervising; LLC “NOVATEK-Yurkharovneftegas” Alexander Kurasov, Deputy General Director – Drilling, Head of …
Gazprom Neft Launches an Ambitious Programme to Improve Drilling Efficiency – The Technological Frontier
Sofia Zorina, Gazprom Neft Andre Ragouline, Vice President, RLG International Inc. Artem Borisov, Project Manager, RLG International Inc. Being technologically advanced is not just about using modern equipment and performing complex operations. It is also about the proper corporate culture which allows the organization to operate with maximum efficiency. Soon …
Orenburgneft: Forecasting Drilling Mud Loss through Interval Wellbore Pressure Testing
А. A. Voronin (OJSC Orenburgneft) AAVoronin@rosneft.ru Introduction Based on experience, in almost all of the wells drilled in the Orenbourg region there is a mud loss issue at various intervals, where the probability of mud loss occurring, during drilling, is approximately 50%. Frac gradient data which is included into the …
Iran – Craving Advanced Technology
Vadim Kravets In late October 2015, US President Barack Obama ordered the Government to prepare documents that would begin the process of removing the sanctions against Iran. The Iranian nuclear program will now be free from restrictions, yet the sanctions against cruise missile development will remain in force. The European …
TNNC: How Well Spacing Patterns Affect Production After Fracturing
D.R. Gilmiev, Ph.D., A.P. Kovalenko, Ph.D. (TNNC LLC) Introduction When designing and planning zonal stimulation activity program for oil reservoirs with hydraulic fracturing, one of the problems is the proper selection of wells for fracking. This issue was covered in several studies [1-3]. Among these, study one [1], based on …
Short-Term Well Operation (STWO) as Effective Method of Shale Oil Extraction
Kuzmichev N. P. Petroleum 21st Century LLC, Almetyevsk A surge in the production of shale oil in the United States over the past decade caused oversupply on the world oil market. Between 2005 and 2013, oil production rose from 5.18 million to 7.44 million barrels per day. In December 2014, …
Varyeganneftegaz: Increasing Production with Smart Well Completions
M.S.Kuvakina (Varyeganneftegaz JSC) Introduction Recently, Russian oil and gas companies have been actively implementing horizontal wells during field development. Such wells allow increasing the reservoir contact area with well, raising the production rates and performance, as well as increasing the oil recovery factor (OR) from the field as a whole. …
Return to Achimov: A Comparison of the Achimov and Neocomian Beds in the Noyabrskiy Region
Kirill Nikolayev Unclaimed Reserves The Achimov suite is the lowermost level of the Lower Cretaceous deposits overlying the Jurassic play. Its geological structure is complex, and that is why it took some time to start developing the Achimov. In some fields exploration activities to estimate the Achimov deposits and the …
Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods and ASP Technology
Yakov Volokitin, Mikhail Shuster, Volodimir Karpan, Salym Petroleum Development N.V. A steady growth in global energy demand requires more efficient production of traditional reserves. One way to address this challenge is to employ improved oil recovery (IOR) methods, which improve the existing recovery techniques (e.g. waterflooding) and apply new oil …