Gazprom Neft: Presented its Technological Developments to Partners in the Middle East
For the first time, Gazprom Neft presented its technologies and digital projects at the largest international industry event – the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) * in the United Arab Emirates. The company presented its own innovative developments that may be of interest to the Middle East market.
The projects were created by Gazprom Neft in partnership with leading research and production companies in Russia. These solutions make it possible to involve complex reserves in the development, as well as increase the efficiency of production at existing assets.
One of these products is “Complex service for the development of hard-to-recover reserves.” These are unique technological solutions for geological exploration, development, well drilling and enhanced oil recovery.
The Cyber Hydraulic Fracturing digital simulator , developed by the company together with the MIPT Engineering Center, is capable of increasing the efficiency of oil production. Russian technology reproduces the characteristics of hydraulic fracturing by 10–20% more accurately than foreign analogues available on the market. Another advantage of Cyber Hydraulic Fracturing is its high operating speed: it takes less than three minutes for the simulator to calculate one well.
At the company’s stand, exhibitors got acquainted with new superhard materials created by Gazprom Neft in partnership with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. Substances belonging to the group of higher tungsten borides are comparable in density to diamonds, withstand temperatures up to 2000 ° C and are cheap to manufacture. They will significantly increase the reliability and service life of drilling equipment, in particular, when working in the conditions of the fields in the Middle East.
The Integrated Asset Planning and Digital Twin programs reduce the number of possible errors in field development by 50% -80% by eliminating the “human factor”, reduce costs and optimize the operation of the production infrastructure.
Another digital product of Gazprom Neft presented at the exhibition is cognitive assistants for drilling processes . In particular, one of the programs for indirect parameters of equipment operation – such as rotation speed and bit temperature, vibration level and others – determines the type of rocks. This makes it possible to predict possible exits from the productive formation in advance and avoid them, which means it is more accurate to build wells in thin oil formations, reducing the drilling time by 5%.
At the conference, Gazprom Neft representatives discussed the prospects for cooperation with both national energy companies – ADNOC, Mubadala Petroleum, DragonOil – and technology companies – Schlumberger, Huawei, Xecta, AIQ. The focus of attention was the application of advanced scientific developments that have the potential to be used in industry both in the Middle East and in the world.
