Hydraulic fracturing is a breakthrough technology! To the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the massive application of hydraulic fracturing in the fields of Western Siberia
July 11, 2018 was exactly 30 years from the date of the first hydraulic fracturing in Western Siberia, which initiated the subsequent large-scale ap-plication of this breakthrough high-efficiency technology in the fields of the largest oil and gas province in Russia. By the end of the 1980s, all the necessary prerequisites for the begin-ning of the mass application of the technology of hydraulic fracturing of the reservoir developed in Western Siberia. The main reason is a significant de-terioration in the structure of oil reserves, an increase in the share of reserves in weakly permeable reservoirs, which require a large-scale application of hydraulic fracturing. The first five “pilot” (demonstration) hydraulic fractur-ing of the formation were performed in Western Siberia by the company «Shapashan Ggasgpazteg» Ltd (even before the creation of the «Yuganskfrakmaster» JV ) - in July-December 1988 in the wells of East Surgut, Salym, Malobalyksky and Sredne-Balykskoye deposits of Production Association Yuganskneftegaz. Despite the modest, in general, the results of the first work on the fracturing (due to small volumes of propane injection), a fundamental opportunity and a great prospect of their application for the ef-fective development of hard-to-recover oil reserves contained in the low permeability reservoirs of the fields of Western Siberia was shown. The first five hydraulic fracturing performed in 1988 were a powerful “catalyst” that initiated the mass process of the subsequent development and introduction of the hydraulic fracturing technology-in hundreds of oil and gas fields in Western Siberia. Achieved in this area by 2018 the results of the introduction of technology of hydraulic fracturing of the reservoir, otherwise than out-standing - can't be named.