The ROGTEC Interview: Fabio Gomez, Sales Director for the CIS Region, Tenaris
What is your position in the company and how long have you held this position? Since 2008 I have been based in Moscow, serving as Tenaris’s Sales Director for the CIS region. How long have you been in business in Russia and the Caspian? Tenaris has been present in Russia …
Nord Stream: Europe’s Largest Infrastructure Project is Underway
Nord Stream moves from the drawing board to reality Paul Corcoran, Financial Director, Nord Stream AG Introduction Nord Stream is a pipeline that will transport natural gas from the vast gas fields of northern Russia to the European Union. A project with four major companies, OAO Gazprom, BASF SE/Wintershall Holding …
The Growth of Multiphase Meters and the Key Challenges They Are Addressing
Vincent Vieugue, Emerson Process Management The Multiphase Meter Market Today There is no doubt that the market for multiphase meters within the oil and gas industry is continuing to grow. Douglas Westwood, for example, predicts that there will be one thousand additional subsea multiphase meters deployed by 2015 and many …
Best Practice for Selecting Potential Candidate Wells and Methods for Repair and Insulation Works (RIW)
Gabdulov, R.R. (RN-Yuganskneftegas, LLC), Nikishov, V.I. (NK-Rosneft, OJSC), Slivka, P.I. (PN-UfaNIPIneft, LLC) Introduction Among the Geological and Technical Works (GTW) carried out in the process of oilfield operation at their latest stages of development, the main part of these operations comprises Repair-and-Insulation Works (RIW) on production and injection wells for …
Waterfracs: A New Perspective Based on Field Experience
John Ely: Ely and Associates Almost since the inception of hydraulic fracturing low viscosity treatments have been conducted. We would define low viscosity treatments as treatments using water and no significant amount of thickening agent where surface viscosities at ambient temperatures are less than 10 centipoise measured at 511 reciprocal …
Uprising Wellbore Geometry to Boost Frac Efficiency in Horizontal Wells
Mikhail Gaponov, Chief Specialist, Well Intervention Planning Section, Well Intervention Planning Dept., Samotlorneftegaz, TNK-BP To maintain high production rates each well’s potential is to be exploited to the full, for example through well interventions such as hydraulic fracturing, acid treatments, etc. In 2009, specialists in the Well Intervention Planning Dept. …
Technology Roundtable: PC Pumps
Eugeny Chashin Director of Marketing, Production Baker Hughes, Russian & Caspian Region Curtis Heide Applications Engineering Manager, NOVMonoflo Francisco Diaz Telli Tenaris-Sucker Rods, Technical Sales Progressive Cavity Pumps (PCP) are noted for handling solids and viscous fluids. Although new models are under development, most now used are temperature limited and …
New Standards for Oilfield Study: Sampling and Well Core Analysis in the Oilfields of Salym Petroleum Development
Ja.E. Volokitin, A.V. Khabarov, V.B. Baranov, A.A. Aniskin, G. de Broucker Salym Petroleum Development Introduction Drilled out and delivered to the surface, a rock specimen or a core, is, perhaps, the only reliable source of geological information on the oil-and-gas bearing formation being studied. Compared with the scale of the …
LUKoil: Enhanced Oil Recovery
Crude oil production from the Korchagin oil field in the Caspian Sea started in 2010. The oil field will be developed with super-long horizontal wells of over 5 km, a unique engineering design solution for Russia. The simultaneous drilling of all oil-bearing strata will be achieved through a uniform radial …
Caspian Sea: Morphometrics & Stochastic Modeling
In part 2 of this article, Part 1 was first published in the March 2010 issue of ROGTEC Magazine, we look at the results & conclusions from the statistical analysis of Caspian Sea Morphometrics & Stochastic Modeling Olubiyi Ishola – biyiishola@yahoo.com Results & Conclusions The measured data reveals that the …