Rosnedra: Began Inventory of Gas Reserves

Rosnedra has begun an inventory of gas reserves, and the process for oil has entered a new stage within the digital transformation. This was announced by the acting head of the agency Evgeny Petrov.

According to him, “the department did not stop work on the inventory of oil reserves. This step should have been taken earlier. “

“We have started work on gas inventory. The figures for gas in the state balance are large, but we need to understand how much of what gas, in what volumes, with what profitability we have, what kind of infrastructure we have. Our infrastructure is still more tailored for dry gas, while subsoil users are dominated by wet gas, which undoubtedly imposes its own limitations, “he said in an interview with Kommersant Publishing House .

The acting head of Rosnedra recalled that oil inventories were carried out at fields with reserves of more than 5 million tons. This was the first step towards the development of incentive measures, bottlenecks were identified that need to be worked on not only by the state, but also by the entire market as a whole. At the same time, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Finance carried out tax differentiation in order to determine specific measures and the level of efficiency.

I repeat, in terms of state planning, we must operate precisely with the concept of profitable reserves: this will give a deeper understanding of reserves as a dynamic quantity. Therefore, when we say that the provision of oil reserves with profitable reserves is 21 years, this figure should be considered in dynamics – depending on current prices and available technologies, it can change both up and down, “concluded Petrov …