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ERIELL Group and Schlumberger Deploy New Rotary Steerable System in Samburgskoye Field

ERIELL Group and Schlumberger today announced the successfully completion of the construction of a 4245 m horizontal well in the Samburgskoye field using the latest rotary steerable system (RSS) from Schlumberger. The combination of the new PowerDrive Orbit vorteX RSS with a customized Smith polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bit and …

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Oil Gas Industry InterviewsRussia Upstream Magazine

The ROGTEC Interview: Mikhail Vilkov, Deputy General Director – Chief Engineer of RBU Russia, ERIELL Group

A year ago, ERIELL Group broke a number of records in drilling the first 1km horizontal well at the the Urengoyskoye oil and gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. The well was drilled in the Achim deposits. During drilling, we broke our own records for both drilling time …

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Eriell Group to Successfully Complete Northgas Project at the North Urengoy Oil & Gas Condensate Field

ERIELL Group has completed works under the Northgas project at the North Urengoy OGCF (Severo-Urengoyskoye OGCF) having successfully drilled six producing directional wells with horizontal section. In total, 25,467 m were drilled. In February 2013, ERIELL was elected general contractor under this contract. The works were performed on a “turnkey” …

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Eriell Group Sets New Records in Western Siberia Arktikgaz Project

ERIELL Group is surpassing its own records in the ARKTIKGAZ Project, Urengoy oil and gas condensate field. So, in June of this year two wells were drilled in 76 and 70 days with 24 and 30 days respectively ahead of schedule. It was the first time when assemblies for the completion of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing were used in Achimov deposits as well as three-stage hydraulic …

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Technology Roundtable: Russia’s Drilling Contractors – EDC, Weatherford, Bashneft Drilling, Eriell Group, IDS and Nabors Russia

1.    Could you please describe the capabilities of your rig fleet? Bashneft-Drilling: Our rig fleet is currently located in three oil producing provinces of Russia – the Urals-Volga region, the Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO), and the Nenetsk Autonomous Okrug (NAO). Our rig fleet capabilities include: Urals-Volga region Drilling rigs with …

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Eriell Group Starts Drilling Operations for Pechoraneft

Eriell Group started drilling activities within the framework of new project with OJSC Pechoraneft at Kolvinskoe Oilfield. The Company was selected as the prime contractor for construction of 32 producing horizontal and directional wells with complex well profiles and outsteps up to2,500 m. Eriell Group will operate four sets of ZJ …

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TNK-Uvat: Where Drilling Innovation Comes to Life

Sergey Samyshkin Acting Drilling Dept. Director, TNK-Uvat Vladimir Malov, Regional Supervising Manager, Drilling Dept., TNK-Uvat In 2010, TNK-Uvat demonstrated the best performance among the Upstream’s subsidiaries. Thus, almost 500,000 t were produced above the plan, which came as a natural outcome of the introduction of innovations and the efficient cooperation …

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