Acreage in Western Siberia, covering six regions of the Russian Federation, and a total 1.5 million square kilometres, was studied as part of the project, revealing 183,000 square kilometres of promising areas for further analysis, with data from more than 3,800 wells being collected in that time. Gazprom Neft developed and utilised new algorithms for processing large volumes of data in order to analyse the most significant volumes of geological data ever collected in the industry, on which an inter-regional map of the Achimovsky deposits has been collated, indicating potential resources of 34.4 billion tonnes of oil and gas. An integrated map of the potential of under-researched Achimovsky strata was also compiled, for the first time.

The digital model covers in detail several regions and is made up of more than 150 maps and plans, on which promising zones have been identified. The “digital twin” of the Achimovsky deposits is a universal tool for analysing fields in Western Siberia: using the information collected and the methodologies worked out, this digital solution will form the basis for putting together the strategy for the subsequent viable development of the Achimovsky deposits.

Mars Khasanov, Head of Gazprom Neft’s Technology Directorate and CEO of the Science and Technology Centre, commented: “Creating digital models on this scale is comparable, in its scientific intensity, to developing computer simulations of the most complex physical processes. Scientists handle massive volumes of data, and have to take millions of parameters and inter-connections into account. Digital models of fields and oil and gas basins are complex products that testify to the company’s advanced technological development.”