
A Training Center for Oilmen Has Been Opened in Orenburg
Gazpromneft–Orenburg will also teach students of specialized colleges there. Gazpromneft–Orenburg has opened a new training center for practicing practical skills in 12 oil and gas specialties. The new site will be used to improve the skills of the company’s employees and train students of specialized regional colleges. The Devon News …

Digital Technologies Increase the Efficiency of Gazprom Neft’s Production in the Orenburg Region
Gazpromneft-Orenburg has launched a digital twin of the Eastern section of the Orenburgskoye field, combining reservoir models and production infrastructure of the field. The economic effect of the project will amount to 3.3 billion rubles. until 2030. The launch of the digital twin of the Eastern section of the Orenburg field will …

Gazprom Neft is Improving its Environmental Monitoring System in the Orenburg Region
Gazprom Neft is expanding its environmental monitoring system using state-of-the-art ecological monitoring stations in the Orenburg Oblast. Gazprom Neft has commissioned four environmental monitoring stations and more than 100 air-quality monitoring sensors in the Orenburg Oblast. Total investment in this project will reach RUB2.3 billion by 2023. Gazpromneft-Orenburg’s environmental monitoring system tracks …

Gazprom Neft Improves the Efficiency of Oil Production from Low-Permeability Reservoirs
Gazprom Neft has developed and successfully tested an innovative method of increasing oil recovery, which makes it possible to triple oil production from low-permeability reservoirs. The new jet tunneling technology * was tested in the Eastern section of the Orenburg field, developed by Gazpromneft-Orenburg. The economic effect from the introduction of technology …

Gazprom Neft Expands the Orenburg Oil Production Cluster
Gazprom Neft has discovered a new field in the west of the Orenburg Region. The asset will become part of the western oil production cluster of the company’s subsidiary, Gazpromneft-Orenburg, with a total resource base of about 30 million tons of oil. The development of the field is scheduled to begin in …

Gazprom Neft Puts the Finishing Touches to its Environmental Monitoring System in Orenburg
Gazpromneft-Orenburg is using the latest environmental monitoring stations and modern mobile laboratories to expand its environmental monitoring system. The business’s total investment in environmental initiatives in 2019 is expected to exceed RUB1.8 billion. Gazpromneft-Orenburg has finished putting in place a fleet of cutting-edge mobile environmental laboratories (eco-labs), with the most recent — built on a KamAZ chassis — being launched during a day shift at the …

Gazpromneft-Orenburg: Multi Story Wells and Fracs Increase Prodution by 40%
Gazpromneft-Orenburg (a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft) has commissioned the first high-tech well built using multi-storey drilling technology. This new approach makes it possible to increase initial production by more than 40 percent, as well as increasing surface efficiency (the “sweep ratio”) and development drilling efficiency. Constructed at the Vostochny licence block at the Orenburg oil and gas-condensate field (VU ONGKM), the …

Gazpromneft-Orenburg: Discovers New Hydrocarbon Field in the Uransky Licence Block
Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft-Orenburg has discovered a new hydrocarbon field in the Novo-Sergievsky and Sorochinsky districts of the Orenburg oblast. Reserves-in-place at the Novozarinskoe field, located in the Uransky licence block, are in excess of 11 million tonnes of oil. This would appear to confirm company specialists’ predictions of the …

Gazpromneft Orenburg: Discovers the Novosamarskoye Field
Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft Orenburg has discovered a new field — the Novosamarskoye — in the Sorochinsky district of the Orenburg Oblast. Initial oil-in-place reserves are estimated at more than eight million tonnes. This is the first discovery at the area under investigation, which company specialists believe contains a series …
Gazpromneft Orenburg: Uses Viscoelastic Diverting Acid In Conjunction with Multi Stage Frac
Gazprom Neft has undertaken multi-stage fracking in the eastern part of the Orenburg oil and gas condensate field (under development by Gazprom Neft Orenburg) using multi-stage fracking* combined with the use of a special component known as viscoelastic diverting acid — the first company in Russia’s oil and gas industry …