It Lies at Great Depths and Requires New Technologies. What is Special about Oil Production in Belarus?
Oil in Belarus lies at great depths, and its extraction requires the use of new technologies. The head of the Main Directorate of Natural Resources of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Vasily Kolb, spoke about this in the BELTA YouTube project “In fact: decisions of the First”. …
Gazprom Neft Continues Independent Studies of Shale Oil Deposits
Gazpromneft-Khantos has started drilling the first horizontal well to explore the Bazhenov complex of the Palyanovsky deposit at the Krasnoleninsky field. This marks a new stage in Gazprom Neft’s study of shale oil deposits* at the field. The depth of the first well exceeds 3,200 metres and the horizontal borehole extends …
Multibranch horizontal well drilling at Udmurtneft OJSC
I.P. Zaikin, K.V. Kempf, O.L. Gotlib, S.V. Yefimov, S.V. Vykhrystyuk, A.M. Nasyrov Rosneft Oil Company OJSC, Udmurtneft OJSC Summary The following article looks at the experience of Udmurneft when using sidetracked wells to enhance oil recovery. Various configurations of sidetracked wells are looked at, including multibranch sidetracks. The efficiency of …