Western Siberia

Oil deposits of the Kuma-Kerestin formation in the North Caucasus and Paleozoic deposits of Western Siberia were brought there The Russian government has included oil deposits of the Kuma-Kerestin formation in the North Caucasus and Paleozoic deposits of Western Siberia in the list of hard-to-recover reserves, the ministry reported. The …

A senior researcher at the Faculty of Soil Science at Moscow State University took part in a study of methane flows from the floodplains of rivers in Western Siberia. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. The processes of formation and movement of methane in soil …

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak approved the federal project “Technologies for the Development of Hard-to-Recover Hydrocarbons”. The document, a joint initiative of the Russian Ministry of Energy, Gazprom Neft and the administration of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, is aimed at developing innovative methods for enhancing oil recovery …

Gazprom Neft has successfully tested a new technology based on machine learning and digital vision for studying rocks at fields in Western Siberia. The project proved the ability to accelerate laboratory analysis of a full-size core by 7 times to make a decision on its further research program. For this, cores are …

Engineering and Multilateral Drilling and Construction of ERD Wells at the Yurkhar OGCF Drilling Mud Oil-based mud (OBM) was successfully used at the Yurkhar OGCF as well as within the wells being considered in this article. Below is the list of their advantages, which enabled the re-placement of traditional, regional, …

Sprint Energy Ltd  is very pleased to provide an update on the acquisition of Block 71-1 project in Tomsk in Western Siberia. The Company confirms that post extensive due diligence activities, parties have now formally executed the acquisition documents for Sprint to acquire a seventy four (74%) percent interest in …

Rosneft and ExxonMobil today signed a Pilot Development Agreement establishing a joint project to assess the possibility of commercial production of tight oil reserves at the Bazhenov and Achimov formations in Western Siberia. The agreement was signed by Igor Sechin, president and chairman of the management board at Rosneft, and …

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 …

Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed agreements for the joint development of several tight oil fields in Western Siberia and for ExxonMobil’s entry into the Arctic Research and Design Center for Offshore Development. The signing marks a further step in the implementation of the long-term Strategic Cooperation Agreement signed between the two companies …

International Petroleum Limited, an oil and gas exploration company with assets in Russia and Kazakhstan, announces that it has commenced drilling Well number 34 at its Yuzhno-Sardakovsky field. In February 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of Vamaro Investments Limited (“Vamaro”), the 100% legal and beneficial owner of two licences …