Supervision Management: Divide & Conquer!
This article is the final installment of a series of ROGTEC articles (1,4) and is devoted to oil related services and managing well construction, well services and workover, and supervising services. We are going to cover the modern trend of managerial supervising, which has emerged due to transition of most …
Identifying and Recording Drill Pipe Operating Time Using RFID Tags
This article describes a prototype of an information system that allows you to track the movement of drill pipes, record their current physical wear, as well as the accumulation of fatigue damage using RFID technology. Drill pipes are one of the most capital-intensive cost items for any drilling enterprise. Costs …
Mud Motor: Design and Technological Advantages for Complex Drilling Conditions
A mud motor refers to the type of positive-displacement rotary hydraulic power units and is widely used to create wells of various depths and directions. The first developments were made as far back in the 60s of the last century, however, mud motors were put into active commercial operation much …
RPI Reports: The Predicted Oil Production Decline Will Boost the Sidetracking Market
The sidetracking (ST) market is one of the most important segments of the Russian oilfield services market (OSM); in 2017, its share in the total OSM volume was 8.7%. In the past ten years, this segment has been on the rise, demonstrating a remarkable growth rate. This operation has become …
Applied and Scientific Solutions, Used for Calculation of Hydrocarbon Reserves in Terrigenous and Carbonate Reservoirs of Basic Gazprom PJSC Fields
Over the last decade, a team of Gazprom VNIIGAZ specialists carried out the estimation of hydrocarbon (HC) reserves, targeting its unique and strategically improtant fields with specific geological-and-technical conditions: the Astrakhan gas-condensate field (carbonate deposits, Petroleum province of the Caspian Sea; Orenburg oil-and-gas condensate field (carbonate deposits, Petroleum province of …
Fundamentals of Subsurface Hydrodynamics and a Quantum-Mechanical View of the Reservoir Model
1. Tim’s Theorem. The fundamental dependences of the key hydrodynamic parameters of the reservoir and the well and their interrelationships as the basis for a new paradigm of subsurface hydrodynamics The “Producing Reservoir – Well – Pumping (Lift) Equipment” system is a uniform, inseparable hydrodynamic system interconnected by fundamental dependences …
Prediction of Oil and Gas Presence in Jurassic-Cretaceous Sediments within the Area of Ob and Taz Gulfs at Kara Sea
After the successful exploration of the gas accumulations in the Cenomanian stage at the fields of the Ob and Taz Bays, the real task now is to further explore the subadjacent deposits and discover any new hydrocarbon accumulations in the Lower Cretaceous and Jurassic deposits. The analysis of the geologic …
Astana Hosted the 4th KDR Well Engineering Forum (KDR 2018)
September 13th, saw the 4th edition of the KDR Well Engineering Forum, www.kazdr.kz, take place at the Palace of Independence in Astana. The KDR, the highest level yearly gathering for the Kazakh drilling and production sector, brought together over 200 industry experts, from over 110 companies for one day of …
Gazpromneft NTC: Coiled Tubing For the Future
Coiled tubing (CT) is a technology first invented during World War II for laying a fuel pipeline under water (Operation Pluto), but it was not until the late 1980’s that it came into common use. Well cleanout, nitrogen lifting, dissolving of hydrate and paraffin plugs and many other operations involving …
Gazpromneft NTC: From Digital to Intelligent Fields
Rising costs associated with the development of new oil and gas fields in the face of fluctuating demand for hydrocarbons are forcing subsoil users to develop and implement new efficient technologies that reduce the cost of production. The remoteness of new fields from the existing infrastructure, the commissioning of new …