Increasing the efficiency of the development of hard-to-recovery oil and gas condensate field reserves by constructing multilateral horizontal wells

Abstract

At present, a significant number of Russian fields have hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves. The share of hard-to-recover reserves in our country accounts for more than 65% (or 12 billion tons) of oil and gas reserves on the balance sheet (in categories A + B + C1). To develop hard-to-recover re-serves successfully, it is necessary to nurture technical and technological potential because the cur-rent technological base of the Russian Federation does not meet the growing demand. The industry requires the development of new approaches concerning exploration, drilling and enhanced oil re-covery. New technologies will make it possible to start developing unique deposits in new regions. That is why the task of implementing new effective technological solutions, which will allow hard-to-recover and low-margin hydrocarbon reserves development, is relevant today. One of the ad-vanced technological solutions is drilling multilateral horizontal wells. That can significantly increase the flow rates.