OREANDA-NEWS. April 19, 2013. A scientific and practical conference "History and prospects of Tatarstan oil fields development" dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the oil fields development in Tatarstan was held at JSC TATNEFT.

The event was attended by geologists and senior experts in geology, geophysics and development of oil and gas fields of TATNEFT Group of Companies, "TNG-Group", small oil companies of the Republic, as well as scientists from TatNIPIneft, IGiRTI, Kazan Federal University, Kazan State Institute of Chemical Engineering and other scientific institutions of Tatarstan and Russia.

The conference participants discussed a wide range of issues concerning the history of studying the characteristics of geology and development of the oil fields in the Republic, and in the first place, Romashkinskoye oil field, analyzed the current situation and shared plans for the future.

About 52 thousand wells have been drilled in Tatarstan for the past 70 years with 45 thousand of this number drilled in the fields of TATNEFT. 3 billion 180 million tons of crude oil have been produced since the start of development with the share of the Joint Stock Company accounting for 3 billion 7 million tons.

At present, TATNEFT Company is actively working to increase crude oil recovery both from new and earlier drilled wells. Extra-viscous oil production is underway at Ashalchinskoye field: more than 200,000 tons of oil have been produced there to date with the daily oil production reaching 325 tons. According to the experts this is one of the main prospective areas of TATNEFT's activities in terms of the reserves increment and increasing production in the Republic of Tatarstan.

The scientists and geologists actively work on incrementing hydrocarbon reserves. The growth of categories C1 and C2 stock in JSC TATNEFT amounted to 488 million tons during the last 15 years, while the production volume amounted to 378 million tons.

More than 20 spotlight presentations were offered at the conference. Modern technical and technological solutions in the oil exploration and production were considered in the framework of the geological scientific and technical forum. The geologists believe that drilling of horizontal and multilateral wells is one of the key areas for further development of the oil fields in Tatarstan, which will allow improving profitability and increasing the bulk of oil production in the near future. In the future - the development and implementation of new technologies to enhance oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs, technologies for enhanced oil recovery, including microbiology, thermal methods, etc.