Gazprom Neft and LUKOIL Will Join forces to Develop Enhanced Oil Recovery Technologies
Gazprom Neft and LUKOIL signed an agreement on cooperation in the implementation of projects to enhance oil recovery. The document was signed by Alexey Vashkevich, Director for Technological Development of Gazprom Neft, and Ilya Mandrik, Vice President for Geological Exploration and Development of LUKOIL.
The partners agreed to work together to improve chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The agreement will become the basis for the exchange of experience and cooperation in laboratory research, the study of surfactants (surfactants) and reagents for stimulating production.
The partners plan to jointly test and implement new cocktails in the development of mature deposits in their fields. The companies also intend to join forces to develop Russian production of reagents and equipment for the manufacture of surfactant-polymer and polymer solutions to stimulate oil production. In addition, Gazprom Neft and LUKOIL will assess the prospects for creating competence centers for the selection of surfactant and polymer formulations using innovative equipment.
Gazprom Neft has successfully implemented waterflooding projects at assets in Western Siberia. An experiment at one of the fields in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra allowed the company to increase the oil recovery factor to 69%, which is almost double the industry average in Russia. The agreement between Gazprom Neft and LUKOIL will help overcome existing challenges and develop KhMUN in Russia.
“Our experience shows that chemical enhanced oil recovery methods can drastically increase oil flow even in fields that have been in development for many years. We can say that these technologies both give a second life to mature assets, of which there are more and more in Russia every year, and open up new prospects for oil production regions. But in order to realize this colossal potential, it is necessary not only to select the optimal formulations of reservoir cocktails, but also to localize their production in Russia. All these large-scale tasks can be solved only by joint efforts of business and the state ”.Alexey Vashkevich Director for Technological Development, Gazprom Neft
Chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery (CMSE) – technologies for increasing the oil recovery factor (an indicator that demonstrates how much raw material is extracted from the reservoir from the total volume of reserves) using various types of chemical flooding.
Surfactants – surfactants, which are the main component for the application of chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery.
PJSC LUKOIL is one of the largest international vertically integrated private oil and gas companies, which accounts for over 2% of world oil production and about 1% of proven hydrocarbon reserves. The main activities are exploration and development of oil and gas fields, production and sale of oil products, petrochemical products and electricity. The company plays a key role in the fuel and energy sector of Russia, is one of the largest taxpayers with the amount of taxes and customs payments paid to the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation of about 900 billion rubles. in 2020 LUKOIL holds a leading position in the development of tertiary methods of enhanced oil recovery and is a major center of competence in the Russian oil and gas industry in the development of technologies for digitalization and intellectualization of production, in particular,
