Russia Oil Gas Magazine

Neural Network Will Determine the Age of Rocks

Scientists from the Advanced Petroleum Engineering School of the Higher School of Petroleum presented their developments at the International Oil and Gas Youth Forum in Almetyevsk. The Devon News Agency learned about this from a report from the HSE. Thus, geologists and paleontologists are training neural networks to determine the …

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Eurasia Journal News

Geology for the Future: Opening a New Page of Cooperation of the BRICS Countries

The rapid development of the global economy, the introduction of new digital technologies, the growth of the planet’s population dictates the need to change the approach to the country’s resource and energy support. Currently, fossil fuel provides approximately 84% of the world and 88% of Russian energy consumption. According to …

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Rosneft Has Replaced Its Chief Geologist

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 …

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Rosgeo Increased its Net Profit Under RAS for 2023

JSC Rosgeo announces financial results for 2023 in accordance with Russian accounting standards (RAS). Despite the difficult economic background and rising financing costs, the company’s gross profit last year increased by 4.45% to 1.43 billion rubles, and net profit increased by 5.4% to 357.61 million rubles compared to 339. 25 …

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Conference and Exhibition News and Updates

Join Experts and Discuss Geology and Carbonate Reservoirs at the SPE Workshop

Carbonate reservoirs are characterised by a complex structure and extreme variability of petrophysical properties. In Russia, they are represented at all field development stages – these are mature fields of the Volga-Ural and Timan-Pechora oil and gas deposits, and green fields of Eastern Siberia and the North Seas. On 26–27 …

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TyumenNIIgiprogaz: Exploration Planning Principles for the Omorin License Block

Gorlov Ivan Vladimirovich: Head of Field Geology, Geophysics & Estimation of Reserves department, TyumenNIIgiprogaz Kachinskas Igor Victorovich: Junior Research Fellow, TyumenNIIgiprogaz Sankova Natalya Vladimirovna: Junior Research Fellow, TyumenNIIgiprogaz The Omorin license block (LB) is located in the Baykit oil-and-gas area in the Leno-Tungus petroleum province (fig. 1). Two petroleum deposits …

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Blackbourn Reports: Petroleum Geology of the West Siberian Basin, The Creataceous Period

Graham Blackbourn: Blackbourn Geoconsulting II.4.1 Neocomian Neocomian reservoirs are the main oil producers in the West Siberian Basin. Owing to the nature of associated source rocks, they are mainly oil-bearing in the central part of the WSB (Middle Ob region), but are largely gas-bearing in the Northern WSB. II.4.1.1 Reservoirs …

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Basin Modeling in Alaska & the Outlook for Siberia

Schenk, O., Spahic, D., Bird, K.J., and Peters, K.E. Basin and petroleum system modeling is an indispensable tool used to examine the dynamics of sedimentary basins and their associated fluids, in order to evaluate if past conditions were suitable enough for the generation of hydrocarbons, which ultimately could have been …

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Rosneft: Reservoir Interpretation Increases Drilling Efficiency

R.I. Abdrakhimov, R.R. Galiyev, D.D. Suleymanov T.S. Usmanov, Chem.Dr. (LLC “RN-UfaNIPIneft”) I.S. Afanasyev, Physics-Math. Dr. (OJSC “NC “Rosneft”) Introduction The Neocomian section in Western Siberia was formed through the gradual lateral infilling of debris into a relatively deep sea basin. For most of the territory, the source of the debris …

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Rosneft: The Final Frontier, Hydrocarbon Potential in the Eastern Arctic

N. A. Malyshev, Dr. of Geology and Mineralogy, V.V. Obmetko, PhD Geology and Mineralogy, A.A.Borodulin (Rosneft) Introduction Today, Rosneft’s activities cover most of the hydrocarbon producing regions of Russia: the Timano-Pechora oil and gas basin, the Volga territory, Northern Caucasus, East and West Siberia and the Far East. Along the …

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