Drilling

The French company TotalEnergies has entered into an agreement to purchase a 20% stake in the Eagle Ford field in Texas from Lewis Energy Group (EOG Resources manages the remaining 80%). This was reported by the press service of TotalEnergies. The acquisition will allow the company to increase its U.S. …

Samaraneftegaz, one of the main production assets of Rosneft in the Volga region, at the end of 2023 ensured an increase in reserves in the amount of 18.5 million toe, which replenishes the enterprise’s hydrocarbon production by 168%. Increasing the efficiency of reserve replenishment and their consistent introduction into development …

Samotlorneftegaz (part of the oil and gas production complex of Rosneft) celebrates 55 years since the production of the first industrial oil from the Samotlor field – one of the largest in the world. In April 1969, industrial development of the oil giant began – just four years after its …

Specialists from RN-Yuganskneftegaz, the Company’s largest producing asset, drilled a well using the fishbone technology* in the water-oil section of a mature field. The oil production rate of the multilateral well was 500 tons per day, which is twice as much as compared to traditional technologies. The development of technological …

On the eve of Geologist’s Day, which is celebrated on the first Sunday in April, geologists of the Orenburgneft company (a subsidiary of Rosneft) successfully completed 3D seismic exploration in the Leningradsky and Tverdilovsky subsoil areas in the Orenburg region. The research area was more than 140 square meters. This …

Tatneft drills sidetracks on a casing liner without conducting geophysical research. Today, many of Tatneft’s fields in Tatarstan are at a late stage of development. There are a number of problems associated with this. Among them are the aging of the operating stock, a high degree of depletion of reserves …

According to the head of the company’s geological exploration department, Alexander Semyanov, investments could grow to 47 billion rubles compared to 36 billion rubles in 2023. Lukoil’s investments in geological exploration may grow by 30% this year – to 47 billion rubles, compared to 36 billion rubles in 2023, follows …

In March of this year, the team of the Svetlogorsk Drilling Directorate drilled 23,159 m of rock. This is almost 2 thousand m more than the previous record figure set in September 2023 – 21,438 m. The SUBR emphasized that this is the result of the coordinated work of specialists …

The research fleet of JSC “Arctic Marine Engineering and Geological Expeditions” (AMIGE, a subsidiary of Rosgeologiya) in 2023 fulfilled 100% of its obligations under commercial and government contracts. Last year, 103 shallow wells for various purposes were drilled on the Arctic shelf of the Russian Federation with a total penetration …

On April 1, registration began for the Geonavigation League, an open championship for virtual drilling of horizontal wells in difficult geological conditions. The competition will take place as part of the IT Marathon, which for the sixth year in a row is organized by the largest research and design institute …