Gazprom Neft looks to replicate US oil shale

摘要

Paris—A senior official at Russia’s Gazprom Neft May 15 likened the giant Bazhenov formation in Russia to the liquids-rich Bakken shale in the US, and said technology and experience from the US could be deployed at the play in West Siberia. Sergei Vakulenko, head of Gazprom Neft’s strategic planning unit, told the CIS Oil and Gas Summit in Paris that the Russian government had become very interested in the country’s tight oil prospects in recent months.