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Rosneft geologists celebrate their professional holiday on the first Sunday of April. The professional date was established in 1966 in honor of the merits of Soviet scientists in creating the country’s mineral resource base. The Company’s enterprises successfully implement measures aimed at increasing hydrocarbon reserves.
Over the past 5 years, Rosneft geologists have discovered 37 fields and 847 hydrocarbon deposits with total reserves in the АВ1С1 В2С2 category of more than 3.1 billion tons of oil equivalent.
This year, the Company’s geological service approached the holiday with traditionally high results. By the end of 2024, testing of 62 wells was completed onshore with a success rate of 89%. The penetration in production drilling exceeded 12 million meters, over 3 thousand new wells were put into operation, 72% of which were horizontal. Onshore, 2D seismic exploration work was carried out in the amount of 1.2 thousand linear km and 5.3 thousand square kilometers of 3D seismic work.
High efficiency of geological exploration allowed the Company to discover 7 fields and 97 new hydrocarbon deposits with reserves of 0.2 billion tons of oil equivalent (AB1C1 B2C2 category) in 2024. As a result, Rosneft’s hydrocarbon reserves according to the Russian classification at the end of 2024 amounted to 21.5 billion tons of oil equivalent (AB1C1 B2C2 category).
According to the results of the audit of reserves according to the international classification PRMS (Hydrocarbon Resource Management System), the Company’s hydrocarbon reserves in the 2P category amounted to 11.4 billion tons of oil equivalent. The replenishment of production by the increase in 2P reserves exceeds 100%.
In the reporting year, the perimeter of the Vostok Oil project expanded from 52 to 60 license areas, while the resource base according to the Russian classification increased to 7.0 billion tons of oil. 0.7 thousand linear km of 2D seismic exploration work and 0.6 thousand sq. km of 3D work were completed. Four wells have been successfully tested, one well is being drilled, and three more wells are being tested. Rosneft prioritizes innovation and defines technological leadership as a key factor in competitiveness in the oil market.
The company is the industry leader in the development of science-intensive and high-tech software in the field of geology and development of hydrocarbon deposits. The software products RN-KIM (hydrodynamic modeling), RN-GRID (modeling of hydraulic fracturing), RN-KIN (analysis of field development) are the flagships of software used in the oil industry. Coverage of all aspects of exploration and field development is also provided by dynamically developing new software products for modeling and data interpretation.
With the participation of geologists from the Tyumen Oil Research Center, two fields were discovered in 2024, one of which is large in terms of reserves, and 29 new deposits were put on the balance sheet, geological support was provided for 830 oil production wells, 90% of which were wells of complex design (horizontal and multi-well). Work was also completed on building a unique seismic facies geological model at the Russkoye field (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), which will allow more accurate determination of oil-bearing zones when drilling wells.
In 2024, the corporate institute in Tomsk conducted 18.5 thousand studies of core samples for scientific support of the efficiency of field development. The justification of the selected tools for searching and developing new deposits, as well as increasing production at the Company’s existing assets, was carried out, among other things, using proprietary developments – laboratory tomographic complexes that create virtual copies of the pore space of rocks with record speed and detail.
In particular, using ultra-precise core and fluid analysis, Rosneft scientists from Tomsk determined the exact nature of hydrocarbons in the Siberian platform (Eastern Siberia). The data obtained formed the basis for basin modeling, the results of which determined new directions for searching for oil deposits.
Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft April 7, 2025
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