Gazprom Neft

The Bazhen Technology Centre (a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft) has undertaken the first 18-stage fracking operation in Russia, at the Bazhenov Formation. High-tech fracking, coupled with the extended length of the horizontal section, has doubled oil inflow from the well. Gazprom Neft has undertaken a fracking operation unique to the industry at the Bazhenov Formation, setting records in terms of the number …

Messoyakhaneftegaz has commissioned a horizontal well at the Vostochno-Messoyakhskoye field, facilitating the full-scale development of Achimovsky deposits. The well, which runs to a total length of 3,200 metres, delivered a natural oil-inflow with initial volumes of 435 tonnes per day — roughly eight times the average at Messoyakha. The results obtained confirm the correctness of project participants’ calculations regarding the promising outlook for …

The Gazprom Neft Board of Directors has confirmed the company’s digital transformation strategy. This new document has been developed in line with the company’s wider business development strategy to 2030, and supports its implementation. This digital transformation envisages a range of major programmes for changes to technological and operational processes at Gazprom Neft, directed at moving over to new …

Gazprom Neft, together with the Russian Federal Geological Fund (Rosgeolfond, a state budgetary institution), has tested the first ever digital scheme for submitting state statistical reports on changes in hydrocarbon reserves to the State Register of Mineral Reserves, with a digital form being successfully used by Gazprom Neft’s largest subsidiary, Gazpromneft-Noyabrskneftegaz with assistance from specialists from the …

Since 2011, most of the newly-commissioned wells delivered by Gazprom Neft’s drilling units have been horizontal wells (HW) with multi-stage hydraulic fracturing (MSHF). To date, about 2,700 horizontal wells with MSHF, equipped with ball-drop-activated “packer-and-port” liner assemblies (uncemented), have been drilled in the Company’s fields, out of which about 800 …

Gazprom Neft has, for the first time, acquired geological prospecting licenses for flank blocks at developed fields — these new blocks, the Sverdlovsky 4 and Yuzhno-Zimny, being located in the Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts. The “flank” mechanism gives existing subsoil users a priority right to secure prospecting licenses to blocks in the Unallocated Subsoil Reserve Fund within a 20-kilometre zone …

Gazprom Neft has published its 2018 Sustainable Development Report — produced in line with international best practice and the highest standards in sustainable development — the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards). In order to confirm the company’s adherence to the best international standards in non-financial reporting on sustainable development the report was, for the first time, subject to an independent audit …

Messoyakhaneftegaz has successfully completed construction of a new high-tech horizontal well at the Vostochno-Messoyakhskoye field — the Drilling Difficulty Index (DDI) of this well being among the highest in the industry. The well is of “fishbone” construction,* with eight side-tracks. This technology means as many disparate areas as possible of the main productive strata at this Arctic field can be brought into production, increasing …

Total cumulative exports of ARCO and Novy Port oil, produced by Gazprom Neft at its Prirazlomonoye and Novoportovskoye fields, have now reached 30 million tonnes. The landmark consignment, shipped in mid-June from the road-to-sea transhipment complex at the Port of Murmansk, was delivered to customers in north—west Europe. The company’s total cumulative volume of Arctic-blend oil exports is now comparable to the capacity …

PAO NOVATEK today announced that Arcticgas, a joint venture between NOVATEK and PAO Gazprom Neft, successfully completed a horizontal well number “U2802” targeting the lower Achimov formation at the Urengoyskoye field. An eight-stage hydro-fracturing program was successfully completed utilizing a record-high proppant volume of 2,187 tons at well number “U2802” …