Unconventional Oil, Future, Experience, Projects

One of the most prominent trends in today’s oil and gas industry is declining light oil production. Reduced conventional reserves cause oil companies look more closely at challenged (unconventional) hydrocarbons.

According to the experts, two thirds of all the known oil reserves and potential oil resources in Russia are challenged and unconventional, those include also tight oil formations, thick oil, under-gas-cap zones, etc. R&D activities in Gazprom Neft’s Innovation Development Program are clustered by technology priority. The Company intends to develop up to 500 mn tons of challenged and unconventional oil reserves, focusing on such options as e-field technology, high resolution seismic, horizontal drilling with multi-stage frac, ASP flooding, in-situ combustion with air injected.