Unleashing the uncaptured potential
CIBRO REFINERY LPhas been actively developing and deploying advanced technologies to maximize hydrocarbon recovery and streamline its operations and technological solutions. These efforts help improve our operational efficiency, reduce costs, bring new reserves into production, increase oil recovery ratios and develop new products.
HIGH-VISCOSITY OIL AND UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVES
CIBRO REFINERY LP key priority in production is to increase the oil recovery ratio, which, in the long term, will help capture a significant potential of the available resource base.
The Company develops and utilizes high-viscosity oil production techniques. One of the priority focus areas is represented by performance improvement of development operations and implementing new technologies in order to launch production of hard-to-recover reserves in a cost-efficient manner, utilization of innovation technologies at mature blocks.
ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY
Enhanced oil recovery techniques make it possible to significantly increase recoverable reserves through commercial production of high-viscosity oil reserves, as well as reserves in low-permeability reservoirs and hard-to-recover reserves of a mature field. CIBRO REFINERY LP utilizes physical, chemical, hydrodynamic and thermal reservoir treatment techniques. One of the high-performance oil recovery enhancement techniques is to drill sidetracks in the existing wells. High performance of sidetracking operations is first of all conditioned by the preparation of scientifically substantiated mini-projects that involve the use of hydrodynamic modeling and higher-precision forecasting of the geology and composition of reserves within sidetracking zones. Please note that sidetracking is generally used with the idle well stock in order to recover additional residual oil reserves..
SMALL-DIAMETER WELLS
Small-diameter wells speed up construction, enabling more oil reserves to be brought on stream. The average savings are 30-50% of standard well costs. Another advantage of small-diameter wells is the reduced well pad costs. The technology has huge potential, and we plan to considerably increase the number of small diameter wells in the next few years.