Rosneft was the first in Russia to introduce a domestic hydraulic fracture simulator

Introduction of “RN-GRID” – the Eurasia’s first industrial simulator of hydraulic fracturing was completed on the affiliated servicing enterprise of Rosneft – OOO “RN-GRP”. The company became the first among Russian servicing enterprises fulfilling import substitution of software for modeling of hydraulic fracturing.

The software complex “RN-GRID” was created by specialists of the company’s corporate research and design institute “RN-UfaNIPIneft”. The simulator allows accurately describing complex geometry of a fracture appearing in the rock at conducting of hydraulic fracturing. Also it provides fulfillment of all operations and engineering calculations necessary for designing of hydraulic fracturing, in particular, visualization of source data, creation of a geo-mechanical model of a stratum, analysis of diagnostic injections, calculation of design and analysis of actually conducted operations of hydraulic fracturing with use of the wide database of technological liquids and proppants. More than 1 thousand operations of hydraulic fracturing with the full cycle of designing in the simulator “RN-GRID” have been already fulfilled on objects of Rosneft. All the operations were conducted successfully and without complications, as the board of informational policy of Rosneft informs. Analysis of parameters of the fulfilled work and indexes of extraction in wells after hydraulic fracturing confirmed high reliability of the results of designing in “RN-GRP”. Hydraulic fracturing is the key technology to provide and to intensify oil extraction both on traditional areas and in extractive fields with difficult reserves. More than 10 thousand operations of hydraulic fracturing are conducted every year on extracting objects of Rosneft.