Tatneft: Appoint Nail Ulfatovich Maganov as General Director
JSC TATNEFT’s Board of Directors appointed Nail Ulfatovich Maganov, who previously held the position of the First Deputy Director General of JSC TATNEFT – Head of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products Sales Department, General Director. Nail Ulfatovich Maganov was born in Almetyevsk (Republic of Tatarstan) on July 28, 1958. He …
Closure Interview with Paul Higginson, Region Manager Europe, Russia & CIS, Packers Plus
Please describe your position and your product offerings for the Russian and Caspian market. My position is Region Manager of Packers Plus Energy Services (PPES) for the Europe/Russia and CIS area. PPES offers innovative completion solutions for Open Hole Multi-Stage Fracturing (OHMSF) which is a key and growing part of …
RPI: ESPO Holding Back Production
Vadim Kravets In September 2013 the board of directors of Transneft approved the company’s investment program for 2014 and until 2018. The document sets out the scope of funding for the construction and upgrade of the existing pipelines. Specifically, the program calls for allocating over 100 billion rubles in order …
Exploring Unconventionally!
David Bamford It can be argued that over the last 20 years or so, offshore explorers have become ‘lazy’, relying on regional 3D seismic to bring them success. This will not be possible when explorers turn to looking for unconventional resources onshore; the innovative use of technology will be the …
Rosneft Basin Modeling to Assess the Hydrocarbon Potential of Offshore Areas
N.A. Malyshev, V.V. Obmetko (Rosneft Oil Company OJSC, RF, Moscow), A.A. Borodulin (RN-SakhalinNIPImorneft LLC, RF, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) The depletion of the resource base in Russia’s historical oil producing regions had brought about the necessity of developing remote areas in the Far North, Eastern Siberia and offshore regions. Performing geological exploration works …
The ROGTEC Interview Thomas Reed, CEO of Ruspetro
Thomas Reed, CEO of Ruspetro and a founding shareholder. Prior to joining the Group Mr Reed was a private equity and M&A advisor and investor based in Moscow. Since 1995 he has been involved in the origination, trading, and research of different classes of assets, such as equity and equity …
TMK Announces 3Q 2013 and 9M 2013 IFRS Results
TMK, one of the world’s leading producers of tubular products for the oil and gas industry, announces today its interim consolidated IFRS financial results for the nine months ending September 30, 2013. Total pipe sales decreased by 9% quarter-on-quarter to 1,022 thousand tonnes, mainly due to a reduction in OCTG …
LUKOIL-AIK Hydraulic Fracture Mapping in Western Siberia
Alexander Kalugin, Geology and Drilling Department, LUKOIL-AIK Iskander Kazbulatov, Wireline Engineer, Weatherford Anna Rubtsova, Borehole Seismic Geophysicist, Weatherford Microseismic monitoring is one of the most efficient methods for hydraulic fracturing mapping. Its principle is based on monitoring micro-earthquakes in the strike-slip fault zones at the fracture propagation direction, or …
RITEK Thermal Gas Treatment at the Bazhenov
Although the development of unconventional resources is a challenging task, the need to focus on this area is becoming ever more important. As a result, new and improved technologies are being implemented to produce more hydrocarbons from unconventional fields. At RITEK, we are working hard on innovative methods that will …
The Bazhenov Formation In Search of Big Shale Oil in Upper Salym, Part 2
Aleksey D. Alekseev Senior Petrophysicist of Salym Petroleum Development N.V., Ph.D. (Geoscience) This article looks at the work performed by Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) 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 …