Identifying the Real Structure of an Oil and Gas Reservoir and its Effect on Recoverable Hydrocarbon Reserves Part 1
Yuri A. Limberger, Independent Expert Summary An oil and gas reservoir structure is currently presented in a highly simplified form. It is assumed that all the intercommunicating (open) pores are filled with hydrocarbons and a residual water film. This concept of a reservoir model is used to process and interpret …
Exploration Over the Last Ten Years, and the Next Five
David Bamford, Petromall Ltd On the occasion of ROGTEC’s 10th anniversary, I would like to step back and reflect on Exploration since the magazine’s dawn, and over the immediate future. It is very clear that the Majors failed to discover adequate new reserves last year – a good summary can …
Rosneft: The Petroleum Potential of the Middle Devonian Deposits of the Sorochinsko-Nikolskoye Field in the Orenburg Oblast
Introduction The appraisal of the Sorochinsko-Nikolskaya block began in the middle of the 20th century: geological prospecting work resulted in the discovery of reservoirs in the Artinskian, Ufimian, Okskian, Bobrikovskian and Tournaisian deposits. Devonian deposits have been poorly appraised, the appraisal only covered Upper Devonian. In the Upper Devonian deposits …
Technology Roundtable: Power Generation
Organising power generation for an oilfield used to be a simple case of purchasing a power supply. Nowadays this has evolved into choosing a turnkey, specifically designed technology solution. Do you agree with this? How do you tailor your solutions for your customer’s needs? Caterpillar Oil & Gas: Our customers’ needs have evolved over …
Russian Drilling Market: A Paradigm Shift
In all likelihood, the year 2014 will go down on record as a turning point for the Russian drilling market. New trends have been seen on this market for the first time in several years, i.e. a decline in the scope of total drilling instead of growth that was recorded …
Gazprom & Russian Gas Production Overview & Future Developments
In the first part of this article, we look at reserves and major projects for the Russian upstream gas sector. In part 2, to be published in the next issue of ROGTEC Magazine, the article will conclude by looking at the production outlook, including market risks. One of the conundrums …
Udmurtneft: Application of Fibre Glass Tubing
Introduction The fields at Udmurtneft are at the late stage of development, which is characterised by a high water cut and also the corrosiveness of the produced fluid, which are the main reasons for a considerable number of downhole pumping equipment failures caused by corrosion. The use of fresh surface …
SPD Implements Innovative Self Healing Pipe Dope Technology
Salym Petroleum Development (SPD), a 50/50 joint venture of Shell and Gazprom Neft companies, collaborates closely with Shell Global Solutions (SGS) on the realization of new technologies in the Salym group of oil fields. SPD is renowned in the West Siberian oil and gas industry to be a leading incubator …
Drillmec Conference: AHEAD & HoD
TMG Worldwide was proud to host a turnkey, privately organized conference for Drillmec S.p.A. in central Moscow, on the 28th October, “The Drillmec Russian Technology Conference”. The Drillmec Russian Technology Conference, held at the Kempinski Baltschug, is one of Moscow´s most famous and prestigious 5 Star venues and was the …
The ROGTEC Interview: Mikhail Vilkov, Deputy General Director – Chief Engineer of RBU Russia, ERIELL Group
A year ago, ERIELL Group broke a number of records in drilling the first 1km horizontal well at the the Urengoyskoye oil and gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. The well was drilled in the Achim deposits. During drilling, we broke our own records for both drilling time …