The general director of LLC Gazprom Geologorazvedka, Alexei Davydov and the president of Schlumberger Russia and Central Asia, Gokhan Saygi have signed a framework technological cooperation agreement.
The Gazprom subsidiary said in a statement that the companies' efforts will be aimed at ensuring the top efficiency of geological survey operations conducted at Gazprom deposits and license section both onshore and off. Cooperation will be built on the basis of joint technological projects. To carry these out, the parties intend to bring in both companies' equipment and resources, and to incorporate Schlumberger technological solutions and programming. A personnel training program will also be worked up.
Gazprom has worked with Schlumberger before. The two companies have set up a coordinating committee and temporary working group for technological cooperation between them. Under the coordinating committee's auspices, a cooperation program for 2013-2015 aimed at interaction in the field of prospecting, development, and production at onshore and offshore fields has been prepared and approved.
The statement quotes Davydov as saying that "We are already using the services of the company Schlumberger for the building of prospecting wells at the Chayanda deposit in Yakutia. We are now moving to a new stage of cooperation. The agreement will make it possible for us to attract additional resources and opportunities in the realization of geological surveying projects of any difficulty.”
