Editor's Letter

Russia Must Look Beyond Big Oil to Keep Its Economy Booming

Pat Davis Szymczak

Oil&Gas Eurasia this year was proud to participate as a media sponsor in the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia’s 9th annual investment conference.
The day-long event drew a crowd of 200 or so delegates – U.S. and Russian nationals – to discuss among...

Putin Names New Cabinet

Incoming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a cabinet line-up on which combined key ministers and powerful Kremlin figures into an unusually strong team under his command

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

NG-Energo and Cummins Join Up to Power Drilling Rigs in Yamal

In mid-April, executives and technical specialists of Russia’s major drilling companies took part in presentation of a diesel power complex with a capacity of 4,360 kW developed by NG-Energo

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