Articles
Konstantin Paikov, NG-Energo Chief Engineer
It has been an example of successful cooperation between NG-Energo, Uralmash-VNIIBT and Cummins, so it can be noted that the system is rather simple and reliable in terms of design
A Tribute to Stalin's Oil Commissar the Late Nikolai Baibakov
In the Russian oil industry the senior workers are reverentially called “patriarchs”. And the greatest of these was Nikolai Baibakov, Stalin’s “Oil Commissar” who died April 3, 2008 at the age of 97
Gubkin Oil&Gas University Summarized the Results of the First Contest of Young Specialists’ Projects
Last spring, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas started an experiment – the first contest of initiative projects of young specialists, which was aimed at stimulation of the development of applied sciences within the University framework (see OGE, Issue No. 7, 2007, page 32-38)
Top Drives Make a Driller’s Life Go Round More Easily
Top drive system (TDS) significantly facilitates the work of specialists during drilling operations. Irrespective of the position of the drilling string, with the help of TDS it can be rotated in any direction
Rotary Vortex Pumps – From Theory to Practice
Completely new design of hydro-mechanical machines invented in Russia late in the last century is used at present in manufacturing of rotary vortex pumps (RVP) for the oil industry. (There was the publication regarding the operating principles and design characteristics of RVP in issue № 3, 2004)
Hydrogenation Methods Refine Heavy Oil Stock
The catalytic cracking of vacuum distillate which had not undergone any preliminary desulfurization makes it possible to produce gasoline cuts, containing 0.25- 0.40 mass percent of sulfur and diesel oil cuts, containing 1.5-2.0 mass percent of sulfur