Enhanced Oil Recovery

Due to take place from 14-16 October 2014 in Moscow, the fifth biennial Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Russian Oil and Gas (ROG) Exploration and Production Technical Conference and Exhibition focuses on sustaining production levels by challenging the limits with technology. This year’s conference agenda covers all major areas of …

RPI, a leading provider of research on the energy sector of Russia, the Caspian region, Central and Eastern Europe, would like to bring to your attention “Kazakhstan’s Oilfield Service Market: Rise in Investment Attractiveness Amid New Realities” research study. Despite the geopolitical tensions and Western sanctions against Russia, Kazakhstan continues …

Sergey Papkov – 3M Oil&Gas Advanced Application Development Engineer Horizontal wells drilling instead of vertical wells allows to drill directly in the reservoir, wellbore in the productive interval may reach up to 9 kilometers of the horizontal section, thus increasing drainage area several times compared to the vertical wells, drilling …

Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) and ООО “Stroytransgaz-M” (STGM) signed a contract for construction of ASP* mixing unit at the West Salym oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra. The ASP mixing unit is designed to prepare a mix of alkali, surfactant and polymer. These components are used in …

Since 2013, Salym Petroleum Development (SPD), the company which develops the Salym group of fields in Western Siberia, has been executing a pilot project for chemical flooding on the basis of a three-component ASP (alkali, surfactant, and polymer) mixture. This April SPD successfully completed drilling of wells for the pilot …

On February 18, 2014 Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas and oilfield service company Weatherford signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at joining efforts to establish the Center of Joint Geological and Geophysical Studies. The advanced laboratory facilities of Gubkin University, the scientific school, and the innovative technologies …

The technology of controlled carbonate reservoir flooding through combined effects of sedimentation and gel-forming compositions (GEOS-K technology) is successfully implemented at TATNEFT Company to increase the recovery factor of the carbonate reservoirs. The technology developed by the experts of TatNIPIneft is applied at the late stage of developing deposits represented …

LUKOIL’s Board of Directors held a meeting in Moscow today to summarize the company’s preliminary performance results from 2013 and set priorities for 2014. The geologic exploration results prove that an increment of the recoverable hydrocarbon reserves in the amount of 130.2 million tons of reference fuel (93.5 million tons of liquid hydrocarbons and …

RPI, a leading provider of research on the energy sector of Russia, the Caspian region, Central and Eastern Europe, would like to bring to your attention the upcoming release of the Oil well stimulation and enhanced oil recovery markets in Russia and forecasts for these markets until 2020 research study. …

TATNEFT Company will take part in the XVIIIth International Specialized Exhibition “Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan-2013”, which will be held in Ashgabat (Republic of Turkmenistan) from November 19 to 21. The organizers of the popular annual forum are traditionally the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Turkmenistan and other …