Gazprom Neft Khantos: Completes First Shale Oil Hydraulic Fracturing
“Gazprom Neft-Khantos” completed the first two test wells drilled in the south licensed the Ob field to explore reserves Bazhenov horizon. Both directional wells conducted hydraulic fracturing (HF), a flow of hydrocarbons in the near future will be completed testing of two similar wells. “Gazprom Neft-Khantos” many years develops traditional …
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 …
Gazprom Neft and Schlumberger Expand Technical Cooperation for Development of Shale Oil Reserves
Gazprom Neft and Schlumberger have signed a supplement to their Framework Agreement on Technology Cooperation*, which was made in 2011. The companies expand cooperation to achieve greater efficiency in development of hard-to-extract shale oil reserves, mainly from Bazhenov deposits in Western Siberia. In the near future, the companies will cooperate …
Gazprom Neft: Developing Unconventional Hydrocarbons
Kirill Strizhnev, Head of «Challenging Reserves» project office for Gazprom Neft’s Directorate of the exploration and resource base development Modern global estimates of unconventional hydrocarbon reserves all point to huge development potential. Currently, unconventional oil and gas production only account for about 1% of global output, however the development of …