Weatherford presented a report on geoscience monitoring of field development process at EAGE/SPE Joint Workshop 2013
On 5 March 2013, Weatherford representatives Dick Zinno, Chief Geophysicist, and Anna Rubtsova, Borehole Seismic Geophysicist, reported on Multi-stage Frac Microseismic Monitoring: Application Criteria and Limitations in Western Siberia Reservoirs at a Joint EAGE/SPE Workshop 2013 held in Moscow. The subject stirred up considerable interest of participants due to active …
Gazprom and Greece address potential privatization of DEPA
Led by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, the Company’s delegation paid a visit today to the Greek Republic. Lycabettus Hill, Athens, Greece Enlarge photo (JPG, 456 KB) A working meeting with Antonis Samaras, the Greek Republic Prime Minister took place as part of the visit. The parties addressed the cooperation in the gas sector. Special consideration …
TNK-BP to Invest over RUB 1.5 Billion in Orenburg Region Pipeline Integrity Program
ТNК-ВР reports that in 2013 it will invest over 1.5 bn rubles in the OJSC Orenburgneft pipeline integrity program. This is 18.5% more than in 2012. TNK-BP takes continuous efforts to ensure pipeline infrastructure integrity; the comprehensive integrity program includes pipeline monitoring, diagnostics, protection, repair and replacement. Over $1 bn …
Slavneft and KHMAO-Yugra Government Signed Cooperation Agreement 2013
Slavneft and the Government of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District-Yugra signed a supplementary cooperation agreement outlining the Company’s social assistance program in the region for 2013. The document was signed by Yu.Ye. Sukhanov, President of OAO NGK Slavneft, and Nataliya Komarova, Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District-Yugra. Under the newly signed agreement, this …
RPI Reports: The Number of Offshore Subsoil Users Should Be Increased
At the end of November 2012, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich said that “the question concerting the list of companies authorized to work on the Russian shelf will be discussed until around February 2013. A number of companies have shown interest in joining this work. A final …
ROGTEC Talks to: Prem Ballabh Pandey, CEO of Imperial Energy
Mr Pandey, you have been the regional CEO for Imperial Energy for the last 6 months. Please explain to our readers what your objectives have been during this period, and what your focus is for 2013? Basically my objectives have been to find new ways and technologies to improve productivity …
TNK BP: Unconventional Sources of Hydrocarbons: Shale Bubble or Shale Revolution?
For the last several years, the topic of unconventional hydrocarbon resources development has become increasingly popular across the globe. It is also a controversial topic, with opinions ranging from euphoric announcements of a “shale revolution” to highly sceptical expert reviews characterizing that phenomenon as a “shale bubble”. If a company …
Exploring for Shale ‘Sweet Spots’
David Bamford, bamford_windward@hotmail.com Not a week seems to go by nowadays without an international ‘deal’ for the exploration for unconventional resources being announced in the ‘trade press’. So, for example, Exxon and Rosneft are about to start exploring the Bazhenov shale in Russia, Ukraine and Shell have just announced a …
VNIIGAZ: The Fundamental Problems of Basin and Oil and Gas Formation Creation
D. A. Astafiev LLC «Gazprom VNIIGAZ» The growing demand for hydrocarbon fuels in many of the world’s developed and developing countries as well as the gradual depletion of hydrocarbon reserves in the relatively accessible and developed regions is forcing oil and gas companies to diversify their petroleum exploration efforts in …
TNGG: Structure and Stratification of Triassic-Jurassic Formations in the Northern Part of Western Siberia: Part 2
A.A. Nezhdanov, V.V. Ogibenin, M.V. Melnikova, A.S. Smirnov, LLC “TyumenNIIgiprogaz” FOR PART ONE PLEASE CLICK HERE The transition from the well data to the seismic data requires obtaining the information about the seismic wave’s distribution speed in the deep horizons of the mantle. Due to the anomalously high formation pressure …