Salym Petroleum Development Drills 900th Salym Well
On 25 May 2014 Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) drilled its 900th well on the Salym group of fields since the execution of the Salym Project began in 2003. The anniversary well, 3150 meters deep, was drilled on the Upper Salym field in 14.41 days. It’s a first sub-horizontal well to …
Rosneft Signed an Agreement with Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia
Rosneft President, Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief of the Russian Federation Vladimir Puchkov signed a cooperation agreement. The parties agreed upon cooperation in the region of protection of territories and population during exploration of hydrocarbon resources on the continental …
Zoltav Resources: Final Results for the Year Ended 31 December 2013
Zoltav, the CIS-focused oil and gas company, announces Final Results for the Year Ended 31 December 2013. Corporate Highlights · Completed acquisition of CenGeo Holdings which holds the Koltogor Licence in Western Siberia · US$20 million investment by ARA Capital in support of CenGeo acquisition to support work programme on Koltogor Licence …
Integra: Approves Management Buyout
Integra Group announced that it had agreed the terms of the acquisition of Integra through a merger of Integra with Integra Management Holdings, a company formed by certain members of the Integra management team, (“Integra Management Holdings”), under part XVI of the Cayman Islands Companies Law, as amended (the “Merger”). …
Closure Interview: Sergey Chizhikov, CEO, Ingenix Group
Please describe your position and role within the company Since the establishment of the company within Gazprombank Group in 2009, I have been the CEO responsible as for the daily company’s activities and for the development of Ingenix Group’s business. Ingenix Group is a relatively young company created in …
Offshore Hazards: Assessing the Impact of Icebergs on Offshore Production Platforms, Part 2
Dmitry A. Onishchenko (Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC) Part 1 4 Iceberg Movement Model An important aspect when modelling iceberg movement is the identification of two scales: global and local. Let’s select, with the centre at the platform location point, a “local” domain, the area of which we express as Areg (Fig. …
Tatneft: New Technologies to Maintain Reservoir Pressure
ALSU MATISOVA With many unique oilfields in late stage development, RPM, Reservoir Pressure Maintenance systems, are becoming increasingly important. It is the modern RPM systems, or, more precisely, the new technologies used to maintain the reservoir pressure that make it possible to increase oil recovery. Tatneft engineers are working first …
The ROGTEC Interview: Mikhail Shuster, ASP Facilities Project Manager, Salym Petroleum Development
Since 2013, Salym Petroleum Development (SPD), the company which develops the Salym group of fields in Western Siberia, has been executing a pilot project for chemical flooding on the basis of a three-component ASP (alkali, surfactant, and polymer) mixture. This April SPD successfully completed drilling of wells for the pilot …
Tight Oil Developments in Russia: Part 2
James Henderson The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Click here to read part 1 3. Corporate Activity in Russia’s Tight Oil Reservoirs Rosneft As befits Russia’s National Oil Company, Rosneft has taken the leading role in the development of the country’s tight oil reserves, in particular since the announcement of …
Sakhalin Oil and Gas 2014 Conference: Register Now and Save €300
Sakhalin Oil & Gas 2014 is the only high-level international conference devoted to the oil & gas industry of the Russian Far East. It provides unique project updates and high-level strategic discussion with top government officials, IOCs and NOCs. 18th Annual Sakhalin Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 22 …