Gas and Oil Fields Exploration & Development

Gas and oil exploration is an expensive, high-risk operation, and is conducted primarily by national governments and/or large exploration companies. The following steps are custom-made for the exploration of oil and natural gas:

• A high degree of knowledge is required - the carbonate environments entail carbonate platforms, high-energy shallows, restricted shoals, lagoons, inner shelves, bodies of organogenic reefs, perireef limestone, debrites and turbidites or allodapic limestone, and reef and perireef bioclastic limestone outside the carbonate platforms

• Sedimentary process includes building, destruction, accumulation, sedimentation, and cementation.

• Exploration tools are highly sophisticated geophysical methods (gravity, magnetic, passing through passive or regional seismic reflection surveys) to detect the existence and determine the extent of these anomalies in large-scale features of subsurface geology.

• A prospect is identified and evaluated by exploration well drilling to conclusively confirm the presence/absence of oil and/or gas.

• Well drilling, geophysical well logging, analysis, interpretation, resource/reserve estimation, and economic evaluation continue to declare a reservoir for production planning

Gas and Oil Fields Exploration & Development  chain consists of three streams:

• upstream, which covers the exploration, development and production of oil and gas;

• midstream, which includes the transportation of oil and gas by tanker;

• downstream, which includes the refinement and sales processes.

Within the framework of the Gas and Oil Fields Exploration & Development VNIIST provides the following services

Organization and execution of construction and installation works for the development of deposits

Development of design and Detail engineering design (DED) documentation, special technical regulations with the support of approval in the Ministry of Construction

Monitoring of construction and installation work, production process monitoring     

Arrangement of oil field well development and construction

Conducting of engineering surveys, exploration works arrangement, deposit modelling and exploration data analyzing

Developing a feasibility study, conducting a feasibility analysis

Designer supervision, construction supervision

Participation in the development and implementation of innovative technical and technological solutions

Repair plans development, major repairs methodology

Research and analysis of the current state of oil and gas production facilities, the quality and quantity control of the oil during its production

Assessment of the need to attract additional operational resources (personnel, special equipment) to maintain the condition of fields

Review and analysis of current strategic plans for the further development of fields with modeling of various configurations of operating modes

Development of an information and analytical system for assessing the technical condition and operating parameters of field facilities

Expert review of design and technical solutions

Development of regulatory and technical documents

Within the framework of the Gas and Oil Fields Exploration & Development VNIIST provides the following services:

• Vankor oil and gas field

• Povkhov oil field

• Pelyatka, Severo-Soleninskoye, Yuzhno-Solenskoye gas-condensate field and Messoyakha gas field

• Pokamasovskoye oil field

• Nivagalskoye oil field

• Zorinskoye oil and gas field

• Shemetinskoye oil field

• Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye oil and gas condensate fieldШтокмановское газоконденсатное месторождение
  

• Shtokman gas and condensate field

• Tevlinsko-Russinskoye oil field

• Talakan oil and gas field

• Yuzhno-Yagunskoye oil field
  

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