Gazprom Neft: the Russian oil industry needs to find a solution for the hydraulic fracturing fleet

MOSCOW, 21 Sep — PRIME. The Russian oil industry needs to find a solution to create a domestic hydraulic fracturing fleet (HF) within three years, Vadim Yakovlev, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Neft, said.

Hydraulic fracturing is a technology for increasing oil production in fields with depleted or hard-to-recover reserves. The hydraulic fracturing fleet complex consists of mobile pumping units for pumping special fluids into wells, command and control stations, field laboratories and other equipment.

“We need to proceed from ambition in three years to cover all our needs with domestic solutions. The next task is to create production in a volume that will satisfy the needs of the entire industry. In addition, the hydraulic fracturing fleet … will need to produce 10 fleets a year,” he told RIA Novosti on the sidelines of the Tyumen industrial and energy forum.

In total, the industry needs 135-140 hydraulic fracturing fleets, the need of Gazprom Neft is 20% of the industry indicator. Now 27 fleets operate at the company’s fields.

As part of the forum, Gazprom Neft and MeKaMineft signed an agreement on testing the first Russian hydraulic fracturing fleet at the company’s fields in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Testing of the complex will take place in 2023.