In the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District They Figured Out How to Extract Hard-to-Recover Gas at the Medvezhye field
The Gazprom Dobycha Nadym company has found opportunities to extract gas reserves at the Medvezhye field in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District. Several exploration and prospecting wells have been drilled in the Senonian deposits. The most promising of them will be launched in test mode by the end of the year, reports the corporate newspaper Gazovic.info.
“At Gazprom Dobycha Nadym, the future of the Medvezhye field is connected with hard-to-recover resources. Among the main issues are not only the search for such deposits, but also their exploitation. The fact that there is gas there has been determined, but in order to extract it, technologies need to be developed,” Gazovic.info quotes the head of the company’s geological department, Alexander Mikhalev.
Several exploratory and exploration wells have been drilled at the Medvezhye field, which is located in Yamal and is part of the West Siberian oil and gas province, the most successful of which is 4C. There is gas in the 4C well, but it is extremely difficult to extract.
“The issue is complex, but it needs to be addressed because we already have a ready-made industrial infrastructure here, and this is a significant plus,” the newspaper quotes Konstantin Kurin, head of the laboratory for analysis and design of field development in the Nadym district.
The introduction of the 4C well into pilot production is planned for the end of the year.
Specialists are currently equipping the well. The Senonian gas resources developed by Gazprom amount to 3.3 trillion cubic meters.
Earlier, Dmitry Artyukhov, the governor of Yamal, said that the district is obliged to develop up to two trillion cubic meters of gas, which are currently classified as hard-to-recover reserves. Artyukhov believes that these are “huge reserves under our feet.”
