Salym Petroleum Development: Exceeded 2014 Oil Production Plan
In 2014 the total annual production from the Salym oil fields in Western Siberia, developed by Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD), made 6.55 million tons (47.1 million barrels). SPD delivered annual oil production plan for 2014 ahead-of-schedule and by the year-end exceeded the planned figure by 4%. SPD production success …
SPD: Drills Record Salym Production Well
SPD set a new record drilling a 4288-meter long production well. It is the longest production well ever drilled in Salym group of oil fields. A drilling milestone was delivered on pad 56 in Vadelyp field by the drilling rig 7 of Siberian Service Company (SSK), SPD drilling contractor. “This …

SPD Implements Innovative Self Healing Pipe Dope Technology
Salym Petroleum Development (SPD), a 50/50 joint venture of Shell and Gazprom Neft companies, collaborates closely with Shell Global Solutions (SGS) on the realization of new technologies in the Salym group of oil fields. SPD is renowned in the West Siberian oil and gas industry to be a leading incubator …
SPD and Yugra Government Signed Cooperation Agreement for 2015
Salym Petroleum Development (SPD) and the Government of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra signed the Cooperation Agreement 2015. The signatures on the document were affixed by the Governor of Yugra Natalia Komarova and SPD CEO Oleg Karpushin. SPD total social investments to Yugra development in 2015 will make 80 million …
Salym Petroleum Development: Started ASP Mixing Unit Construction
Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) and ООО “Stroytransgaz-M” (STGM) signed a contract for construction of ASP* mixing unit at the West Salym oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra. The ASP mixing unit is designed to prepare a mix of alkali, surfactant and polymer. These components are used in …
Salym Petroleum Development Drills 900th Salym Well
On 25 May 2014 Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (SPD) drilled its 900th well on the Salym group of fields since the execution of the Salym Project began in 2003. The anniversary well, 3150 meters deep, was drilled on the Upper Salym field in 14.41 days. It’s a first sub-horizontal well to …

The ROGTEC Interview: Mikhail Shuster, ASP Facilities Project Manager, Salym Petroleum Development
Since 2013, Salym Petroleum Development (SPD), the company which develops the Salym group of fields in Western Siberia, has been executing a pilot project for chemical flooding on the basis of a three-component ASP (alkali, surfactant, and polymer) mixture. This April SPD successfully completed drilling of wells for the pilot …
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 …
The Bazhenov Formation In Search of Big Shale Oil in Upper Salym, Part 2
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 …
Salym Petroleum Development: The Bazhenov Formation – In Search of Big Shale Oil in Upper Salym
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 …