The Karpinsky Institute is hosting the N.N. Lisovsky science and practice conference “Hard-to-Recover Reserves - Present and Future”

At the opening ceremony, the conference participants were addressed with welcoming speeches from Orest Kasparov, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Mineral Resources, Pavel Khimchenko, Director General of the Karpinsky Institute, Igor Shpurov, Director General of the State Reserves Commission (GKZ), and Alexander Kalinin, First Deputy Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug..

Pavel Khimchenko, Director General of the Karpinsky Institute, emphasized that “the current state of the industry requires particularly subtle intellectual approaches to the development and implementation of new technologies not only to increase oil recovery, but also to maintain current production rates. The conference program includes many informative and important presentations from experts with a wide range of experience. This gives special value to the event”

On the first day of the conference, at the plenary session “Technological sovereignty in the oil and gas industry as the basis of Russia’s energy security”, the speakers presented an analysis of the situation in the industry and the tasks of its development.

Igor Shpurov, GKZ Director General, noted in his speech that “Digital production controlled by artificial intelligence is a new paradigm in oil recovery

Main tasks for the digital transformation of the oil recovery are to create tools for proactive management of production processes thanks to the capabilities of mathematical modelling and neural network technologies in a unified digital environment in order to optimize processes from the reservoir to processing and product sales.

The most important basis for creating an efficient and environmentally friendly digital oil recovery is to improve the quality and discreteness of geological and recovery studies to ensure a constant and reliable flow of information about the operation of the entire system.”

Today, the conference will discuss a number of key topics for the industry, including regulatory documents and technologies for developing fields with hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves, and will also summarize the overall results of the event.