Salym Petroleum Development

Aleksey D. Alekseev  Senior Petrophysicist of Salym Petroleum Development N.V., Ph.D. (Geoscience) This article looks at the work performed by Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) for the pilot development of the Bazhenov Formation. The research program has helped to identify key geological features of the Bazhenov Formation of the Upper …

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 …

This article looks at the work performed by Salym Petroleum Development N.V. for the pilot development of the Bazhenov Formation. The research program has helped to identify key geological features of the Bazhenov Formation of the Upper Salym field, which have helped define the ways of drilling, completion, field development …

SPD has reached a massive milestone earlier this year, drilling its 800th well. That’s an excellent achievement, but what are your drilling targets over the next couple 
of years? Our existing development will continue in the coming years. The number of wells to drill will depend on the speed at …

Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Jorma Ollila, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Royal Dutch Shell signed in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte a Memorandum outlining the principles of cooperation within hydrocarbons exploration and development in Russia’s Arctic shelf and a section of deep-water shelf abroad. In foreground: Alexey …

Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom Management Board, and Jorma Ollila, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Royal Dutch Shell plc , in the presence of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte signed a Memorandum that sets out the principles of co-operation …

How has business been for SPD over the last year and what is your forecast for the next 12 months? In 2013 it will be 10 years since the start of the Salym project. Over those 10 years we started from nothing and have built a major modern oil production …

On November 26, Supervisory Board of Salym Petroleum Development N.V.  (SPD) approved the go ahead for a pilot on using new technology that enables to enhance oil recovery by chemical flooding with ASP. The ASP field pilot will be undertaken in the Salym group of fields in Western Siberia in 2013-2015. ASP …

Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) developing Salym group of oil fields in Western Siberia has successfully implemented a gas utilization project. This unprecedented example of solving the issue of associated petroleum gas (APG) utilization is based on the mutual partnership between three private companies and on cooperation between business and …

Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region Government (KHMAO) signed the Cooperation Agreement for 2011 in Moscow. The Governor of Yugra Natalia Komarova and SPD CEO Simon Durkin put their signatures on the Agreement. “Signing of a Cooperation Agreement with the KHMAO Government is one more important step …