Tatneft-AktubinskRemService provides services in the sphere of well workover with the use of coiled tubing technologies. R.M. AKHMETSHIN, Deputy Director – Chief Engineer, Tatneft-AktubinskRemServis

This article shows the very first experience in Russia of using new Schlumberger technology of matrix acidizing of carbonate formation – MaxCo3 Acid System I.G. POLYAKOV, I.V. KUNAVIN, R.E. ZONTOV, Gazprom dobycha Astrakhan A.N. SOROKIN, K.V. BURDIN, Schlumberger

Roderic K. STANLEY, ItRobotics, IOS-PCI, and Coiled Tube Resource management

The experts from leading coiled tubing production companies, Garry McClelland, VP Engineering, Global Tubing and W.D. (Don) Van Arnam, Senior Metallurgist, Product Development, NOV Quality Tubing are answering the questions of our readers and website www.cttimes.org users

For the consumers of equipment manufactured by NoV Fidmash – the leading oil and gas equipment manufacturer in the former Soviet Union – spring is associated with a traditional meeting – Consumer Conference dedicated to operation of the coiled tubing, cementing, pumping, nitrogen equipment and equipment for hydraulic fracturing. The manufacturer usually organizes such a conference in March when people most of all wish to make plans and set new targets.

SPE Russian oil & Gas Exploration & Production Technical Conference and Exhibition held at the end of last year quite clearly identified the main priorities of the industry research and development. The event showcased the majority of the research and developments performed in Russia over the recent two years, there was made a number of reports about foreign expertise that can be easily applied at Russian oilfields.

Currently many of the oilfields are at their late stage of development and the oil production at such oilfields is dropping. Development of new oilfields requires considerable investments. That is why today one of the main goals of oil and gas companies is to achieve a more complete recovery of hydrocarbons and reduce the cost of this process. D.V. ZININ, Burenie Research and Production Association

G.G. ISHBAYEV, S.Y. VAgAPOV, BURINTEKH COMPANY

Victor LYASHKOV, CTS Technical Instructor, MLC Schlumberger

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SPE Russian oil & Gas Exploration & Production Technical Conference and Exhibition held on october 26–28, 2010 summarized the results of the work performed in the oil and gas industry of the Russian Federation in 2009–2010. The event is traditionally the largest scientific and technical oil and gas forum in Russia and CIS states.

European Well Intervention Round Table organized by the Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA) and Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) was held in Aberdeen November 17–18 and gathered around 250 experts who are mainly engaged hydrocarbon production in the Northern Sea area.

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