Western Siberia

In February 2012 Weatherford was awarded a tender of LUKOIL-Western Siberia for the delivery and service of multi-stage fracturing systems in 2012. The systems will be installed in wells located in the Kogalym, Langepas and Pokachev-Neftegaz fields. Last year, 68 well completions were successfully deployed by Weatherford specialists in LUKOIL’s …

R.I. Abdrakhimov, R.R. Galiyev, D.D. Suleymanov T.S. Usmanov, Chem.Dr. (LLC “RN-UfaNIPIneft”) I.S. Afanasyev, Physics-Math. Dr. (OJSC “NC “Rosneft”) Introduction The Neocomian section in Western Siberia was formed through the gradual lateral infilling of debris into a relatively deep sea basin. For most of the territory, the source of the debris …

The world is evolving at a rapid pace leaving behind the technologies and approaches that seemed advanced just a few years ago. The same goes to oil industry and drilling in particular. With the share of hard-to-recover reserves increasing and the scope of new solutions expanding, oil companies around the …

Chapter 1. Introduction and Brief Review of the Petroleum Geology II.1.1 Introduction As noted in Section I.1.3, the West Siberian Basin has been sub-divided into distinct petroleum-geological regions by various authors, and there is no wholly consistent terminology. The ten regions illustrated in Enclosure II.1 are widely used in the …

International Petroleum Limited, an oil and gas exploration company with assets in Kazakhstan and Russia, is pleased to announce that oil has been found during drilling of Well No. 2 and provide an update on drilling of Well No. 1 at its Krasnoleninskiy Project in Western Siberia. Preliminary investigations on …

As any large oil project, Salym field development requires the involvement of a huge number of contractors, including construction companies, design institutes, manufacturers of equipment and materials, transportation companies and others. More than 400 contractor companies now operate in the Salym fields. Working in Salym allows the Russian companies to …

I.3.3.2 Aptian, Albian, and Cenomanian Sedimentary rocks of this age are up to 1500 m or more thick in the northern part of the WSB, with the thickest sediments now being deposited in the region of the Yamal Peninsula, although the deepest-water facies continued to accumulate in the KhantyMansi region …

Following on from the excerpt in the last issue of ROGTEC Magazine, we look at the Late Jurassic period and the overlying Neocomian Late Jurassic sediments, which lie disconformably on the Middle Jurassic in parts of Western Siberia, are 500 m or more thick in northern parts of the basin …