Gazprom Neft and leading developers and manufacturers of equipment for hydrocarbon production have created the first domestic complex for hydraulic fracturing (HF). In 2022, bench tests will be held, and in 2023 — testing of the hydraulic fracturing fleet at the Yuzhno-Priobskoye field in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra.
The new generation equipment is adapted to work with hard-to-recover reserves. The hydraulic fracturing complex, developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering, consists of mobile pumping units for pumping special fluids into wells, command and control stations, field laboratories and other special equipment. To automate hydraulic fracturing operations, a specialized software package has been developed, which, among other things, includes the digital simulator Cyber Hydraulic Fracturing, created by Gazprom Neft together with MIPT to calculate the parameters of underground operations.
Due to the greater capacity of pumping units, the efficiency of Russian equipment when working with hard-to-recover reserves will be higher than foreign analogues. An increase in the volume of fluid injection will allow creating an extensive network of fractures even in super-dense rocks and, thus, increasing the flow of oil into the well. In addition, domestic equipment is more compact than foreign complexes, which reduces the cost of preparing special sites for accommodating equipment.
“The cost-effective development of complex oil reserves, whose share in Russia reaches 70%, requires technologies and equipment that are not dependent on imports. Hydraulic fracturing is one of the most common methods for increasing the efficiency of field development. Now approximately 85% of the increase in oil production is provided by the use of hydraulic fracturing. Together with partners, we created the first domestic fracturing equipment, and this is a historic event for the entire oil and gas industry. We include in this project the parameters and characteristics we need, which will allow us to work optimally with hard-to-recover reserves.”
Alexey Vashkevich Director for Technological Development, Gazprom Neft
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