Submit proposal for new technologies

Gazprom Neft’s Science and Technology Center seeks to promote an innovation circle around it with intent to culture new ideas and approaches to the Company’s technological development. We are willing to review all the promising proposals received from potential developers concerning the application and improvement of technological solutions in geological exploration, field development, oil production and other business areas of Gazprom Neft’s Science and Technology Center.

Gazprom Neft’s projects aimed at improving efficiency of oil and gas production, development of new reserves and fulfillment of the Company’s strategic plans were assembled into a single conceptual document known as the Technology Strategy.

A list of the Company’s focal areas is provided below. If you have any proposals concerning these focal areas, you can submit your application. A subject matter expert of Gazprom Neft’s Science and Technology Center will contact you as soon as we have reviewed your application.

New hydraulic fracturing technologies

• “Smart” fracking fluids
• Branched well fracturing techniques
• Innovations in hydraulic fracturing design
• Fracture propagation study technologies

Technologies for development of under-gas-cap deposits, onshore and Arctic offshore deposits

• New materials for construction and development
• Reservoir pressure maintenance methods and technologies
• Breaching risk control and management technologies
• Flow profile leveling equipment

Enhanced oil recovery techniques

• Chemical and gas-aided EOR techniques
  

Technologies for low-permeability reserves development

• Selection and employment of well intervention techniques
• Geological modeling tools

Energy efficiency enhancement technologies

• Energy-efficient equipment (energy management)
  

Technologies for carbonate reservoir development   

• Fissured reservoir development tools
• Innovations in fissured reservoir surveys
• Tools for integrated modeling of fissured reservoirs

Technologies for unconventional reserves development   

• Development of the Bazhen suite models
• Tools for exploration of the Bazhen suite
• Technologies for effective development and production of the Bazhen reserves
• Enhanced oil recovery techniques for the Bazhen

High-resolution geological exploration technologies      

• Multi-wave seismology, duplex and anisotropic migration, ЕS360
• Geomechanical modeling of prestressed rock (macro scale)
• Advanced methods of sequence stratigraphic analysis and sedimentation modeling

Digitalization of industrial processes       

• Innovative approaches to integrated engineering of asset development
• Exploration efficiency enhancement tools
• Smart development management tools
• Data Science tools

High-tech well construction technologies     

• Downhole filters
• Innovative well completion technologies
• Geomechanical modeling tools

Immovable oil detection technologies

• Heterogeneous formation development analysis tools developed on the basis of seismic geology models
  

Integrated engineering

• Cost management models (cost engineering)
• Financial and economic models for petroleum engineering