Uralmashplant will supply equipment for the drilling rig “Arctica”
Uralmashplant signed a contract with Uralmash NGO Holding for supply of drilling equipment units for the rig Uralmash 6000/400 EK-BMCH “Arctica”. Equipment exceeding 800 ton will be manufactured, including guide ways, modules of right- and left-hand frames, derrick, module of mechanized receiving board. The delivery term is November 2013. Drilling …
The ROGTEC Interview: Andrew Vincenti, Branch Director Kuehne + Nagel Sakhalin
Please describe your position and role within the company I am the Branch Director of Kuehne + Nagel Sakhalin with responsibility for Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Korsakov and Nogliki offices as well as the newly opened Vladivostok office. I have held this position for 11 years. Kuehne+Nagel has been working in Russia for …
Future Onshore Global Hotspots
David Bamford, Finding Petroleum It is fashionable to identify deepwater – especially in the South Atlantic, unconventionals – especially in North America, and the Arctic – offshore Alaska, Russia, perhaps Greenland – as the ‘hot spots’ in the current global exploration scene. Onshore exploration remains unfashionable or it least so …
Personal Protective Equipment Market in Russia
Aparna Balasubramanian Research Analyst – Chemicals, Materials and Food, Frost & Sullivan With increasing importance of occupational health and safety across the world, employers of diverse industrial businesses lay huge emphasis on ensuring the safety of employees in workplaces, by providing appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). PPE comprises various types …
VNIIGAZ: Concepts for Arctic Shelf Field Development
M.N. Mansurov, (Gazprom VNIIGAZ, LLC) The development of oil and gas resources in the Arctic is based on a large amount of research and the use of new technologies that ensures both the efficient exporation and production, decreases capital costs and complies with all relevant safety and environmental norms. Scientific …
RPI Reports: Kazakhstan – Upstream Market Focus
The oil and gas industry of Kazakhstan has shown an unprecedented pace of growth over the last 10 years. Thus, in 2001-2012 oil production nearly doubled (from 39.3 to 79.2 million tons), while gas production increased by nearly 3.5-fold (from 11.6 to 40.1 bcm). By 2020 the country’s oil production …
The ROGTEC Interview: Denis Ivanov Nabors Drilling International Limited
When ROGTEC last spoke to you in Issue 29 (May 2012) you mentioned Nabors was looking to increase its drilling fleet. What progress has been made on the expansions? Do you have further expansion plans for Russia? Yes, we started to work with a new client “Slavneft-Krasnoyarskneftegaz” in the Krasnoyarsk …
Gazprom Neft: Developing Unconventional Hydrocarbons
Kirill Strizhnev, Head of «Challenging Reserves» project office for Gazprom Neft’s Directorate of the exploration and resource base development Modern global estimates of unconventional hydrocarbon reserves all point to huge development potential. Currently, unconventional oil and gas production only account for about 1% of global output, however the development of …
Salym Petroleum Development: The Bazhenov Formation – In Search of Big Shale Oil in Upper Salym
This article looks at the work performed by Salym Petroleum Development N.V. for the pilot development of the Bazhenov Formation. The research program has helped to identify key geological features of the Bazhenov Formation of the Upper Salym field, which have helped define the ways of drilling, completion, field development …
Bashneft’s Net Income for the First Half of 2013 Increases to 25.154 Billion Roubles
During the six months of 2013, the Group’s revenue from sales increased by 6.2% year-on-year to 260,483 million roubles due to an increase in oil production and refining. During the period from January through June 2013, adjusted EBITDA declined by 1.6% and amounted to 44,141 million roubles. During the six months of 2013, the Group’s net income less minority interest totalled 25,154 million …