Abstract
A number of large greenfields has lately been brought into development in Eastern Siberia, Russia, one of which being the Verkhnechonskoye oil and gas condensate field. There, for the first time in the history of domestic oil and gas production at regional scale, geologists faced a high-mineralized section, where the pore space of productive horizons is partially or fully filled with salt, which defines differential characteristics when developing new assets.
This study highlights the field development in the context of uncertainties, and the risk control strategy. It describes solutions for well operation in low temperature formations and for maintaining the oil-rate plateau using new approaches to development of sections of low formation reservoir properties (FRP) and under-gas-cap zones with the contact reserves of oil.
