Geological Exploration

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation noted that the department has developed a serious potential in the regulatory, legal and technical areas of domestic geological exploration. The activities of Rosnedra in geological exploration allow for strategic planning and guarantee the technological and raw material sovereignty of Russia. This …

Rosneft is undergoing active personnel changes this summer. According to the Kommersant newspaper, Vladimir Mashorin, a native of NNK, was appointed chief geologist instead of Andrei Polyakov. According to the publication’s interlocutors, Polyakov left the company for health reasons. They call Mashorin’s appointment logical, since he has extensive geological experience …

Gazprom Neft has discovered a field in Tomsk Oblast with geological reserves of about 30 million tons of hydrocarbons. The discovery was the largest in the region over the past 5 years. The new field, named “Nezdanny Mys”, is located in the Zapadno-Luginetsky license area in the Parabelsky district. The …

The President of the Republic also drew special attention to the need for uninterrupted operation of the refinery. President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, during a meeting with the head of the Kazakh national company Kazmunaygas (KMG) Askhat Khasenov, gave instructions to attract large investors into geological exploration and the petrochemical …

And gas – 5 trillion cubic meters, says Igor Shpurov, Director General of the State Commission for Mineral Reserves of the Russian Federation. Russia needs to develop technologies for the development of hard-to-recover reserves in order to increase profitable oil reserves by 7 billion tons and gas reserves by 5 …

Muanda International Oil Company (MIOC, a subsidiary of the Anglo-French Perenco) has explored oil deposits on the continental shelf of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This was reported by the Perenco press service. This is the first success in geological exploration on the shelf of an African country …

Rosnedra ensured the introduction into production of 115 Russian technologies for geological exploration, among them neural network technologies for increasing oil production and oil recovery and 4D seismic technology, said Dmitry Oleynik, adviser to the head of the department. “One of the important issues for us is also the creation …

The Chairman of the Board of KazMunayGas (KMG) M. Mirzagaliev took part in an international scientific and practical conference dedicated to the oil and gas future of the Mangystau region, where he spoke about the prospects for the development of geological exploration and the company’s plans in this area. This …

The Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil) has granted Equinor permission to drill at the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea. Havtil reports. Transocean Enabler Drilling operations will be carried out using a semi-submersible drilling rig (SSDR) Transocean Enabler: built at the South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering …

Hibiscus Oil & Gas Malaysia (a subsidiary of Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad) has successfully completed the drilling of the Bunga Aster-1 exploration well on the Malaysian continental shelf. This was reported by the press service of Hibiscus Petroleum. Well Bunga Aster-1 found: oil sandstone deposits in the interval of about 17.5 …