Mining Black Gold, Mining Rocks. Belarusian Oilmen About 2023 Records
2023 was a fruitful year for Belarusian oilmen in discovering new fields, as well as a record year in terms of black gold production, BelTA learned from the Belorusneft enterprise. In 2023, Belorusneft produced 1,876 thousand tons of oil. According to the company, this is a record figure for 28 …
KazMunayGas And Eni Will Invest $300 Million in Exploration of The Kazakh Sector of The Caspian Sea
Kazakhstan is intensifying geological exploration of the Caspian Sea, which has not been carried out for the last few years, and has taken the Italian Eni as a partner. KazMunayGas and the Italian Eni plan to explore the Kazakh Caspian shelf for hydrocarbons jointly, reports 24KZ TV channel with reference …
Aker BP And Equinor’s North Sea Exploration Drilling Results Were Unsatisfactory
Norwegian oil and gas companies Aker BP and Equinor have explored new oil reserves near the Munin field in the North Sea. This was reported by the press service of the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD). Exploration drilling at block 30/12 The Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (NOIA), formerly known as the …
Petrosibir: Production Report December 2023
Petrosibir’s total oil production during December 2023 amounted to 20,203 barrels, equivalent to 652 barrels per day. The table below summarises the average monthly / daily production in 2023 and in 2022, broken down by region. 2022 2023 Average Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Total …
RussNeft Will Resume Work at the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Field, Which Was Closed Due to Sanctions
RussNeft will begin developing the Vostochno-Kamnoye field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, which was suspended in 2023 due to sanctions and the economic crisis. The head of the Khanty-Mansiysk branch of the company, Alexey Shatalov, shared his plans for drilling new wells. “At the Vostochno-Kamenny field, work on industrial development …
LUKOIL Put Into Trial Operation The Yukkun-Yoganskoe Field in Yugra
LLC LUKOIL-Western Siberia (100% subsidiary of PJSC LUKOIL) has put into trial production the Yukkun-Yoganskoye field in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. The fishery is located on the territory of the Nizhnevartovsk region, 30 kilometers from the city of Pokachi. At the exploration stage, seismic exploration work was carried out in …
Russian Oil Production is Preparing to Break the Post-Soviet Record, Media Writes
In the first 11 months of 2023, Russia drilled oil wells with a total depth of 28.1 thousand kilometers, which indicates successful resistance to Western sanctions, Bloomberg writes. The accelerated pace of drilling in Russia may break the post-Soviet record, the publication emphasized. According to analysts from Kpler and the …
A New Way Has Been Found to Increase Oil Recovery Factor During Reservoir Flooding
Scientists from Kazan Federal University have obtained new results in the field of physical and chemical hydrodynamics. They studied the effects of surface tension and contact angle on the adsorbed amount of surfactants. The Devon News Agency was informed about this by the press service of the Institute of Geology …
US Oil Production Will Now Grow at Half The Rate
In the new year, US oil production will grow at half the rate it did last year. This forecast was announced by EOG Resources. U.S. oil production rose 900,000 barrels per day in 2023, EOG President Billy Helms said in a presentation to investors. “Given the high volume of production …
ExxonMobil Has Finally Left Iraq
The American oil company has finally abandoned the West Qurna 1 project in southern Iraq, transferring operational functions at one of the world’s largest oil fields to PetroChina. In 2023, the Iraqi authorities approved an agreement to transfer ExxonMobil’s 22.7% share in the West Qurna-1 project to the state-owned Basra …