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Digital transformation of oil and gas services at drilling and field facilities improves the economics of hydrocarbon field development. Technological progress is accelerating so much now that it will soon be difficult to track the diversity between different technologies and even more difficult to choose the most effective technology. In …

Introduction The oil reserves of Russia’s continental shelf fields under development are decreasing. The domestic oil and gas companies are investing more and more into geological exploration on the continental shelves of the Kara Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Okhotsk as well as other areas [1,2]. The cost of constructing …

Introduction The Ambitious development of hard-to-recover reserves from low permeability fractured reservoirs, such as the Bazhenov horizons, has been started relatively recently in the Russian Federation, and, to date, it is in a stage of experimental commercial development. The outcomes of the experimental commercial developments suggest that the estimated well …

Introduction The project was performed between 2012-2018 as a part of dedicated science and technological program of Gazprom Neft by two of its subsidiaries: The Science and Technology Center of Gazprom Neft (theoretical and procedural framework, data processing and analysis, development of software and algorithms) in conjunction with Gazpromneft – …

In early February this year, at a meeting between the President of the Russian Federation and the Head of Rosneft, the implementation of the largest production project in decades was launched – the development of hydrocarbon reserves of the Taymyr Peninsula in synergy with the fields of the Vankor cluster. …

Since the beginning of 2018, Gazprom Neft PJSC has been testing and implementing digital technologies and Geo-Supervision services during well construction operations, which has opened new potential for well construction techniques and the organizing and managing of drilling operations within the region [1]. Following on from the first ever tender …

This paper describes the impact of invert emulsion killing fluids on reservoir porosity and permeability. 83% of killing fluids in the world oil and gas industry are water-based fluids. The disadvantage of such fluids is a decrease in porosity and permeability after each well killing operation. Despite the fact that …

Currently, hydraulic fracturing is a highly demanded technological operation for the intensification of hydrocarbon production from different types of reservoirs and increasing the injectivity of injection wells. The purpose of hydraulic fracturing is to create a network of fractures in the rock. Planning, support, and optimizing hydraulic fracturing operations is …

Conventional geosteering becomes more complex, faster and requires more data in real-time. This puts an incredible amount of pressure on geosteerers as their decisions need to be taken in a shorter amount of time, need to be more precise and require from him/her analysis of a larger amount of data. …

As of 2018, the well logging sector was one of the largest, ranking fifth in monetary terms among all sectors of the Russian oilfield services market. In addition to its significant volume, it is one of the most technologically advanced sectors, as companies already apply and will apply many innovations …