Igor Sechin Made a Working Visit to Azerbaijan
Igor Sechin made a working trip to Azerbaijan. In the course of the visit the Head of Rosneft met with SOCAR’s chief Rovnag Abdullaev. The parties discussed the execution of joint projects in the area of oil production and refining in Russia and Azerbaijan. Afterwards Rosneft head and SOCAR President …
Nizhnevartovsk Oil and Gas Producing Company Starts Industrial Exploration of South-Uzunsky Licensed Site
Rosneft subsidiary Nizhnevartovsk oil and gas producing company starts commercial drilling on South-Uzunsky licensed site situated in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District-Yugra Two drilled wells provided average daily flow rate of 50 tons each. It is planned to drill 12 recovery wells, 5 service wells and 1 prospect well at the …
Rospan Carried Out a Record Hydrofracturing at the Urengoiskoe Field
Rospan International (Rosneft subsidiary) carried out a record hydrofracturing at the Urengoiskoe field, which resulted in the 9 times increase of production rate. There had been pumped 400 tons of proppant to benches of Achimov formation, which proved the efficiency of a record hydrofracturing at the 2-06-03 well. The previous …
Rosneft Finished Geologic Exploration in Barents Sea
Rosneft has finished performing comprehensive geophysical exploration, including seismic data acquisition 3D and gravimagnetic survey on the West-Prinovozemelsky licensed site on the continental shelf of the Barents Sea. The scope of work totaled 2.8 thousand square km. The specialized scientific research vessel «Geo Caribbean» was used to conduct works. As …
Rosneft and CNPC Strengthen Strategic Cooperation
Rosneft and Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) signed an agreement for the extensions of strategic cooperation. The document was signed by Rosneft Head Igor Sechin and CNPC Vice President Wang Dongjin. The signing ceremony was led by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. The agreement envisages elaboration …
SLC-Group Delivered New Directional Well for Rosneft on Olkhovskoe Oilfield
New directional well # 2514 was drilled on Olkhovskoe oilfield for ROSNEFT oil company with the using of the top drive system DQ50B, which was set on the drilling rig ZJ-50 DB. The well length was 3741 m. Performance of the top drive had the following maximum values: rotation speed …
Eastern Development Center of Uvat Project Produced the 30-millionth Ton of Oil
Rosneft subsidiary Uvatneftegaz produced the 30-millionth ton of oil at Eastern Development Center of Uvat project. Record keeping has been carried out since the beginning of the development of the Urnenskoe and Ust-Tegusskoe fields in 2007. Eastern Development Center is the primary center for Uvat project, and is indicative of …
Kuibyshev Refinery Produced First Izomerizate Product Lot on New Unit
The first izomerizate product lot has been produced on a new isomerization unit of Kuibyshev refinery. Izomerizate is a component of high-octane gasoline produced in compliance with the highest ecological Euro 5 standard. The octane number of the lot produced is 88.6, which corresponds to the planned project octane number …
Rosneft Discovered a New Hydrocarbon Field in the Kara Sea
Rosneft successfully completed the drilling of the northernmost well in the world – the Universitetskaya-1 well in the Arctic. According to the results of the drilling Rosneft has made an oil discovery at the East-Prinovozemelskiy-1 license area. The drilling was completed in record-breaking time – in one and a half …
Sakhalin Oil and Gas 2014: Kirill Molodtsov – Kara Sea Drilling Continuing Till the 10th of October
Russia’s Rosneft and U.S. ExxonMobil are continuing to drill in the Kara Sea and plan to stop work by Oct. 10, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Kirill Molodtsov said on Tuesday. “They are drilling and will be drilling until Oct. 10. They did have to stop on Sept. 26 but they …