Scientific activity of SE «Naukanaftogaz» is concentrated in the sphere of geology, geophysics, exploration and development of the oil-and-gas (O&G) fields, transportation of O&G, underground gas storage, and economic investigations in O&G complex and scientific and technical accompaniment of service and engineering works.
Strategic planning:
- Strategies, conceptions of development of O&G complex;
- Short- and long-term state and branch programs of development of O&G complex;
- Complex principal research programs of regional and exploration works on O&G;
- Preparation of innovative investment portfolio of hydrocarbon resources development.
Designing:
- Exploration and supplementary exploration projects of O&G fields;
- Geology-economic reserves estimation;
- Investment projects with risk assessment;
- Assessment of hydrocarbon recovery coefficients;
- Drafting of technological documents on O&G field development;
- Geology-production evaluation of field development;
- Projects drafting on construction and exploitation of underground storage facilities;
- Coordination of projects with supervisory bodies;
- Projects supervision;
- Well designing.
Geology:
- Geological study, prospects of O&G bearing regions and allocation of new O&G complexes;
- Complex investigations (lithological, stratigraphical, geochemical etc.) with the purpose of structure specification and new zones exploration;
- Investigation of conditions of generation and dilatation of different types of hydrocarbon traps with the purpose of new fields discovering;
- Evaluation of payable O&G bearing and assessment of formation characteristics of productive horizons.
Geophysics:
- Processing and complex interpretation of seismic, geological and distance methods data;
- Development, support and accompaniment of geology-geophysical DB (database) of O&G bearing regions and fields;
- Geological and geophysical modelling of O&G bearing regions and fields;
- Development of geophysical investigation methods on assessment of prospects of new unconventional O&G bearing objects and their prognostication;
- Development and installation of the special programs on realization of laboratory analytical investigations concerning questions of O&G geophysics;
- Determination of required complex of geophysical investigations for specification of petrophysical data of the existing and new O&G bearing zones and dilatation of different types of hydrocarbon traps;
- Expert evaluation of geophysical part of investment projects;
- Analysis of industrial O&G bearing and assessment of productive formation characteristics.
Field development:
- Development, support and accompaniment of geological-production DB on the basis of field development monitoring system;
- Numerical hydrodynamic modelling of oil, gas, oil-gas-condensate and coalbed methane fields;
- Numerical hydrodynamic modelling of underground gas storages;
- Development of technological decisions on realization of high-efficiency O&G fields development systems;
- On-line control on design implementation;
- Optimization of design decisions on O&G fields development;
- Development and testing of new field development technologies and EOR methods;
- Elaboration of engineering-documentation of O&G fields development.
Production:
- Development and application of new and improved oil and gas stimulation technologies;
- Development and application of new and improved technologies of water shutoff;
- Technical-economical risk and efficiency assessment of the proposed technology;
- Development of recommendations in relation to an optimum well production;
- Development of recommendations in relation to the improvement of gathering facilities, processing and transportation of O&G;
- Development and installation of innovative technologies and equipment in O&G production;
- Development of engineering-documentation on processes and technologies.
Transportation:
- Investigation of O&G transportation systems and development of recommendations in relation to their improvement;
- Development, support and accompaniment of geology-production DB of underground gas storage;
- Development of recommendations in relation to the exploitation improvement of underground gas storage;
- Development and implementation of cushion gas substituting technologies.
Scientific-information services:
- Patent-informative searches after customer’s subject, recommendations according project’s perspective;
- Information-statistical reviews of patenting dynamics;
- Patent investigations in obedience to SSTU(State standard of Ukraine) 3575-97;
- Drawing up of patent cards (checking for a «patent cleanness» in obedience to SSTU 3574-97;
- Registration of inventions, useful designs, industrial prototypes and trade marks after national and international procedures, accompaniment until receipt of official protective record (patent, evidence);
- Preparation of contracts in relation to disposing of intellectual property rights and implementation of works on their state registration;
- State registration of copyright objects (computer programs, DB, scientific and technical works and etc.);
- Registration of rationalization suggestions;
- Development of normative documents concerning intellectual property for enterprises (standards, acts, briefings, methods);
- Methodical recommendations and consultations about intellectual property;
- Services of the Central scientific and technical library;
- Control, coordination and implementation of base authority functions on standardization of NJSC «Naftogaz of Ukraine»;
- Normative documents acquisition for NJSC «Naftogaz of Ukraine» and Ministry of Energy, storage, classification, actualization, copying and distribution of normative documents to the enterprises and authorities of O&G industry.