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The Oil and Gas Information Agency conducted a video interview on the development of oil and gas services and cases of successful import substitution in Russia in 2024. The publications questions were answered by an expert of the Russian Gas Society PhD Roman Toyb.
In particular he noted that over the past year vertically integrated oil companies equipment manufacturers and oil services have done some work to coordinate activities Meanwhile the problem of coordination between key market participants remains relevant Less noticeable than expected was the progress with tax preferences In the upstream segment independent drilling companies such as ENGS or SSK face high tax burdens which complicates their competitiveness in the domestic market.
In Tatarstan drilling contractors have achieved a temporary reduction in the tax rate for those participating in programs to develop fields with lowpermeability reservoirs However on a national scale tax incentives for companies working in exploration and drilling remain insufficient the expert shared his opinion.
As a successful example of support for Russian technologies Roman Toib singled out the program for the implementation of domestic hydraulic fracturing fleets at fields with hardtorecover reserves. These technologies are being developed jointly with Russian scientific institutes and have already proven their effectiveness in a number of pilot projects However despite certain successes questions remain about the level of technological maturity of such solutions in comparison with foreign analogues.
Instead of focusing on replacing all imported solutions we can propose the idea of getting ahead of imports developing fundamentally new technologies that can get ahead of existing global analogues he emphasized. This may include drilling technologies for work in extreme conditions or innovative methods for increasing oil recovery. An example is the completely Russian development of the oilfield service company TSS which created and successfully tested the Refrac technology ie conducting repeated multistage hydraulic fracturing in old wells Also in the interview Roman Toyb paid much attention to the problem of standardization and many others.
