Search for tight oil
08.07.2014 Komarova to Restructure Yugra Based on Presidential Administration Recommendations
Regional governor Natalia Komarova has begun implementing “The 20-30 Strategy”. Diversification of economy and transformation of “one-company towns” are on the agenda.
18.06.2014 Salym Petroleum Places Stake on Tertiary EOR
Salym Petroleum Development N.V. (Salym Petroleum), Gazprom Neft’s and Shell’s joint venture (50/50), continues optimizing a chemical flooding technology based on a three-component mixture of anionic SAA, sodium, and polymer (ASP).
16.05.2014 Oil Sands Trade Show
28.01.2014 Russia’s Yugra Oilmen to Receive Tax Breaks for Bazhenov
The Russian Finance Ministry has backed a bill to issue tax breaks to oil companies working with tight oil resources. The deputy director of the ministry’s tax and tariff policy, Aleksey Sazonov, believes the state budget will not lose much bby offering such breaks.
18.12.2013 Russia’s Rosneft Eyes Tight Oil in Tyumen
Tyumen Region Governor Vladimir Yakushev and Rosneft head Igor Sechin have signed a long-term cooperation agreement in Moscow.
18.12.2013 Rosneft, ExxonMobil Complete JV Formation to Develop Tight Oil Reserves in Western Siberia
Rosneft and ExxonMobil today signed documents establishing a joint venture to implement a pilot project for tight oil reserves development in Western Siberia as part of the implementation of the agreement on strategic cooperation.
20.09.2013 Total Interested In Russian Tight Oil Projects
French energy major Total (TOTF.PA) is in talks to join "tight" or hard to access oil projects in Russia, which by some estimates hold the world's largest unconventional oil reserves, a Total executive was quoted on Tuesday as saying.
19.09.2013 Tight Oil Potential Outside North America Is Huge, Says Study
Commercially recoverable reserves of tight oil in the rest of the world could be double or more those of North America and the geology of the 23 best opportunities are better in some cases, according to a new study.
19.06.2013 Russian Energy Ministry Submits Bill to Stimulate Tight Oil Production
The Russian government has submitted a bill to the Duma on stimulating the development of difficult oil reserves. The bill was drafted as a joint effort by the Russian Energy and Finance ministries, the Energy Ministry reported in a news release.
06.03.2013 Taxes Hinder Russian Tight Oil Projects
WEB EXCLUSIVE, Moscow. Russia's current oil-tax system is hindering production of the country's low-permeability reservoirs, says IHS CERA's Thane Gustafson.
August/September 2014
Russia Pivots East for Better or for Worse
OGE talks Arctic with Vasily Bogoyavlensky
New Pumps for Producing High-Viscosity Oil
