hard to recover

Yakov Volokitin, Mikhail Shuster, Volodimir Karpan, Salym Petroleum Development N.V. A steady growth in global energy demand requires more efficient production of traditional reserves. One way to address this challenge is to employ improved oil recovery (IOR) methods, which improve the existing recovery techniques (e.g. waterflooding) and apply new oil …

1. With the sanctions currently restricting Russia’s development of hard to recover reserves, has there been any accidental impact on fracking operations for conventional reservoirs? Weatherford: For conventional reservoirs, frac scopes have been reduced for all the contractors due to the plummeting oil prices. However, horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracturing …

Sofiya Zorina Development of the Bazhenov formation is one of the key strategic objectives of Gazprom Neft in the medium term.   Success in achieving this objective directly depends on the company’s technological development. In 2014 plans to develop non-conventional reserves which had been announced in Gazprom Neft some time …

The first exploratory well has been drilled at the Achinsk field (Tomsk Oblast, under development by Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft-Vostok), part of a federal project to establish a regional testing ground to identify effective technologies for the development of hard-to-recover (“tight”) reserves. Operations, financed by Gazprom Neft, are also aimed at conducting a study of the unconventional hydrocarbon reserves of the Bazhenov formation. …

The 2nd Hard to Recover Oil Technology Conference is pleased to announce that Rosneft have confirmed their participation to the event with a senior team. Hard to Recover Oil Russia is a one day technology conference looking at the advanced fracing, drilling and reservoir engineering technologies that are being provided …