associated petroleum gas

Russia named leader in flaring, rates increased in all regions amid declining production. In 2023, associated petroleum gas (APG) flaring rates increased significantly and became the worst in five years, according to the World Bank report. In general, the volume of flared gas increased by 9 billion cubic meters, or …

The Orenburgneft company, which is part of the Rosneft oil production complex, implemented 95 innovative projects to improve production efficiency in 2022, 28 of which were proposed by the company’s specialists. The economic effect of the implemented technological solutions amounted to more than 4 billion rubles. Increasing the efficiency of …

The Scientific and Technical Center (STC) of the Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) in Skolkovo became the site for the strategic session of Gazprom Neft, dedicated to technologies for developing the reserves of the Bazhenov formation, the largest hard-to-recover hydrocarbon deposits located in Western Siberia. The event was attended by representatives …

Messoyakhaneftegaz, a Gazprom Neft—Rosneft joint venture, has commissioned an underground gas storage facility at its Messoyakhsky license block. This is the first time in Russia’s domestic oil industry that associated petroleum gas (APG) at one field has been utilised at undeveloped gas-bearing strata at another. Implementing this unique project will allow Messoyakhaneftegaz to address its target of taking APG utilisation …

The Gazprom Neft Board of Directors has, on 26 October, reviewed the company’s associated petroleum gas (APG) utilisation programme, as well as greater effectiveness in APG utilisation in 2018 and plans for 2019–2021. Based on 2018 outcomes, and in the light of increasing hydrocarbon production, the productive use of APG throughout the company’s fields is expected to show a year-on-year increase of 2.7 billion cubic metres — an increase, …

Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft-Khantos has launched an Upstream Control Centre as part of its “Digital Field” programme. The Centre takes solutions previously developed within the company, directed at improving the efficiency of individual upstream production processes, and brings these together in a single, integrated environment, with the creation of the Gazpromneft-Khantos Upstream Management Centre making possible the integrated and holistic …

The Gazprom Neft Board of Directors has reviewed its strategy on APG utilisation programmes and the more effective use of APG in 1H2016, as well as long-term plans for 2016 — 2017. Average usage of APG at the company’s mature assets currently exceeds 93 percent. At Gazpromneft-Noyabrskneftegaz, in particular, APG …

OOO LUKOIL-Komi (a wholly-owned subsidiary of PJSC LUKOIL) commissioned a gas compressor station (GCS) at the Kharyaginskoye field of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The new GCS receives the associated petroleum gas (APG) from three major fields of the Timan-Pechora oil and gas province, namely, Kharyaginskoye, Yuzhno-Shapkinskoye and Inzyreyskoye fields. Due …

Today, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich, President of PJSC LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov and Stavropol Region Governor Vladimir Vladimirov took part in the official startup of the first phase of the gas processing unit at the Stavrolen plant in Budennovsk. This project will make it possible for …

Associated petroleum gas produced from the northern group of fields owned by LUKOIL-Komi started flowing to the Gazprom-owned Sosnogorsk gas processing plant (GPP). APG supplies will enable the loading of available capacities of the Sosnogorsk GPP and will make it possible to utilize efficiently the growing APG production from the …