
ROGTEC on the Road!
The ROGTEC Magazine team were all over the region this autumn, exhibiting/distributing the latest issue at the leading events such as SPE Moscow, Sakhalin O&G, SPE Caspian, NGK, RPI and we were proud to be the only mainstream Russian magazine to have attend the KIOGE event in Almaty with a …

ROGTEC on the Road!
RDCR 2014, UOR 2014, NEFTEGAZ, 21st WPC and Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition It has been an interesting summer for the team at ROGTEC Magazine, and as always we pride ourselves on ensuring that we have “boots on the ground” at all the key regional conferences and exhibitions. It must …

TNGG: APG Utilization at Russian Oil Fields
M. N. Gagarin (LLC TyumenNIIgiprogaz) In the Russian Market, there are almost no widely available cheap technologies to collect and process associated petroleum gas, or APG. Similar technologies and projects can be found abroad, but these can be very expensive and would also need to be adjusted to Russian climatic …

Application of Seismic Entropy to Increase Frac Efficiency
S.Akopyan, Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RF, Moscow The seismic entropy method is currently used for earthquake forecasting. It enables us to show the seismic ranges of the geological environment which cause violent earthquakes and the formation of faults in an environment …

New Technologies for Optimizating Condensate Fields with High Gas Factors
S.Tseytlin, D.Eng (Tseytlin Consulting Inc. USA), G.Mirzoev, KG., A.Iskhanov (GMG Int., USA), А. Kashik, D.Eng (Central Geological Survey, Moscow) Over the last 10 years, a new technology has been developed and successfully tested for optimising the production for oil fields with high gas to oil ratio, (GOR), which we will …

Outlook for Offshore Exploration in Russia up to 2025
Irina Chmeleva In recent months, the discussions about the impact of foreign companies and technology on Russian oil production have intensified at all levels. State officials, ranging from the President to various Ministers, have highlighted the need to boost domestic production of equipment in order to substitute imports. Given that …

A New Contract Between Management and the Petro-Technical Professional
Henry Edmundson, R9 Energy Consultants David Bamford, Petromall Ltd The continued search for oil and gas relies in equal measure on good management and superior petro-technical expertise. The key, though, is ensuring that the two worlds mesh smoothly and create a working environment that motivates both parties to succeed. …

Closure Interview: Sergey Chizhikov, CEO, Ingenix Group
Please describe your position and role within the company Since the establishment of the company within Gazprombank Group in 2009, I have been the CEO responsible as for the daily company’s activities and for the development of Ingenix Group’s business. Ingenix Group is a relatively young company created in …
Offshore Hazards: Assessing the Impact of Icebergs on Offshore Production Platforms, Part 2
Dmitry A. Onishchenko (Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC) Part 1 4 Iceberg Movement Model An important aspect when modelling iceberg movement is the identification of two scales: global and local. Let’s select, with the centre at the platform location point, a “local” domain, the area of which we express as Areg (Fig. …
Tatneft: New Technologies to Maintain Reservoir Pressure
ALSU MATISOVA With many unique oilfields in late stage development, RPM, Reservoir Pressure Maintenance systems, are becoming increasingly important. It is the modern RPM systems, or, more precisely, the new technologies used to maintain the reservoir pressure that make it possible to increase oil recovery. Tatneft engineers are working first …