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Alliance Oil Company: Operational update for 2012

In 2012, Alliance Oil Company’s total upstream volumes increased by 10% to 19.7mbbl (53,900 bopd) from 17.9 mbbl (49,000 bopd) in 2011. The preliminaryrefining volumes in 2012 increased by 13% to 29.3 mbbl (80,100 bopd) from 26.9 mbbl (73,650 bopd). Preliminary crude oil and oil product sales amounted to 19.3 mbbl and 29.9 mbbl respectively in …

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TNK-BP Acquires New Fields in the Orenburg Region with Total Reserves Exceeding 8 Million Tons

TNK-BP informs about the acquisition of 100% stake in Yupiter-A LLC, which owns licenses for Tverdilovskiy and Pogromnenskiy areas in the Orenburg region with total reserves (C1+C2) of 8.1 mln tons. Asset portfolio expansion is a part of the massive program aimed at efficient development of the prospective oil and …

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TNK-BP Announces Discovery of New Fields in Orenburg Region

TNK-BP announces the discovery of new oil fields in the Pokrovsko-Sorochinskiy and Radovskiy blocks, with estimated potential recoverable reserves of 4 million tonnes in the ABC1 category and 1 million tonnes in the C2 category. The future development plan for the new fields includes a detailed appraisal of the acreage …

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TNK-BP Improving Cooperation with Suppliers and Contractors to Increase Challenged Oil Production Efficiency in West Siberia

ТNК-ВР, together with key suppliers and contractors, is implementing new approaches to cooperation to increase the efficiency of innovative challenged oil reserves development projects in West Siberia.   The TNK-BP top management and experts discussed key areas of focus within current and future projects with the representatives of over 30 …

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Integra Group Interim Management Statement and Financial Highlights for the 9M 2012

Integra Group (LSE: INTE) released today its Interim Management Statement and unaudited financial highlights for the nine months period ended September 30, 2012. The financial data are based on management assessment only and have not been reviewed by external auditors. Operations of Integra Group’s Formation Evaluation segment were discontinued following …

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Structure and Stratification of Triassic-Jurassic Formations in the Northern Part of Western Siberia

A.A. Nezhdanov, V.V. Ogibenin, M.V. Melnikova, A.S. Smirnov: LLC “TyumenNIIgiprogaz” The analysis of deep and ultradeep drilling data, regional and areal CMP seismic data carried out with increased study depth over the recent years at Gydan peninsula and Yenisei-Khatanga regional trough (YKRT) territory, made it possible to establish that troughs …

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Development of the Russian Arctic Shelf: The Need for Accelerated Development Part 2

Vadim Kravets: leading Analyst Following on from Part 1 of this article which ran in issue 30 of ROGTEC, the article discussed how In early August 2012 the Russian government requested a revision of the draft Program for development of the Continental Shelf. On the whole, however, the government approved …

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TNK-BP Dual Completion: Unlocking Hidden Potential

Studies by the Tyumen Petroleum Research Centre (TNNC) show that TNK-BP is failing to take full advantage of the major benefits that could be gained by applying dual completion (DC) technology at its oil fields. Each of the Company’s target subsidiaries (TS) has encountered its own specific difficulties when it …

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Multi Zone Hydro Fracturing at Lukoil

Between 2013-2015, LUKOIL plans to drill 449 horizontal wells using multi-zone hydrofracturing (HW with MZHF). During 2011, 96 of these wells were drilled and by the end of 2012, LUKOIL will have drilled a further 108. Using this technology has proved highly effective on the difficult reserves of Western Siberia. …

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Roxi Petroleum plc: First Production From Munaily

Roxi Petroleum plc, the Central Asian oil and gas company with a focus on Kazakhstan, is pleased to announce that production at the Munaily field from Well H1 has commenced at a rate of 125 bopd as of 2 December2012. The Munaily field is located in the Atyrau Oblast approximately …

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