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The number of investment funds that incorporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors has been growing rapidly in the last twenty years. The ESG factors are a subset of non-financial performance indicators that include ethical, sustainable, and corporate governance issues. ESG is now a generic term used in capital markets …

Anton, you have recently started a new role as the Technology Benchmarking Project Manager in Gazpromneft STC. Can you describe what new responsibilities you have and what you hope to achieve in this role? The major goals that I have set myself are: Organizing the process of searching, analyzing and …

In Tatneft today, “business challenges” occupy a considerable share of the company’s set strategic goals. These are strategic and technical tasks which are set to deliver fold increases in production asset efficiency. About 30 such “challenges” have been identified in different areas, which include searching for technologies that enable the …

The Zapadno-Tarkosalinskoye oil and gas condensate field is located in the Purovsky region of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The field has multilayers and complex geology. The target interval is the terrigenous deposits of the J1 formation. The key uncertainties of the project include the oil-water contact (OWC) level and the …

The article’s title may trigger a hefty dose of skepticism in many readers. due to the fact that the Bazhenov Suite is considered the largest oil reserve in Russia. The efforts taken to develop this reserve are about to bare fruit and the “mystery of the century” is about to …

Alexey, this year R&D Center for Gas&Oil Tech is celebrating its 20th anniversary, which is a great achievement in itself, considering the challenges of sustaining business in Russia. What is the company’s story so far? I was lucky enough to witness its establishment and to work at ground zero. In …

The Oil rims at the fields in the Urengoy region contain significant oil reserves, and the issues of their development have now acquired particular relevance. One of the main factors determining the successful development in such a complex geological region is to have the correct understanding of the internal structure …

Advanced investment planning into a greenfield oil and gas project is impossible without a Technical and Economic Assessment (TEA) – produced from reserve estimates to economic analysis. That said, the shortage of sufficient G&G data and other information, at an early stage of advanced planning, deprives an investor of the …

The First Use of Russian neutron-density tool in a Triple Combo BHA at the oilfield of LLC «RN-Uganskneftegaz» for drilling of optimized casing design wells Introduction To improve well construction efficiency Rosneft has been successfully implementing two-string wells design for several years now [1]. The approach is quite innovative, it …

Introduction RusGazAlliance (a joint venture between Gazprom and RusGazDobycha) together with RusGazBurenie successfully completed the construction of the longest onshore extended reach well (ERD) in Russia on Senomanian deposits. Well No. A08 at the Semakovskoye field was 3,663m long with a vertical depth of 879m and a vertical deviation of …