"Zarubezhneft" has partnerships with many Russian scientific-and-research, design and service organizations. In compliance with these organizations "Zarubezhneft" is working on new solutions for adapting modern equipment and new technologies to specific projects.

Among the main partners of the Enterprise in scientific research on hydrocarbon prospecting, well drilling, oil and gas field exploration and development, oil and gas production are:

• I.M. Gubkin Russian State University of oil and gas;
• Institute for Oil and Gas Problems at the Russian Federation Academy of Science;
• Central Geophysical Expedition;
• Institute of Geology and Development of Combustible Mineral Resources (IGiRGI);
• All-Russian Scientific and Research Geological Oil Institute (VNIGNI);
• All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Oil-and-Gas Industry Organization, Management and Economics (VNIIOENG);
• OJSC "All-Russian Scientific-Research and Design Institute on Petroleum Gas Processing" ("VNIPIGaspererabotka", Krasnodar);
• OJSC "All-Russian Scientific-Research and Design Institute on Gas Fields Facilitation" ("VNIPIGasdobycha", Saratov);
• OJSC "NIPITermneft", Krasnodar;
• "Yuzhniigiprogas", Donetsk, Ukraine;
• OJSC "All-Russian Scientific-Research and Design Institute on Oil Refinery" (VNIPIneft);
• All-Russian Gas Scientific and Research Institute (VNIIGAS);
• All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Drilling Technologies (VNIIBT);
• Institute of Energy Resources Transportation Problems (IPTER);
• Institute for Design and Research "Vzryvgeophizica";
• Siberian Innovation Corporation (SibINCOR);
• CJSC "Udmurtneft - Burenie".

Having an objective to promote Russian technologies in the markets of the oil and gas producing countries State Enterprise Zarubezhneft in 2002 established a Non-profit Partnership Innovation Oil & Gas Company TECHNOLOGY.

Leading domestic enterprises entered the partnership which are capable of executing complete package of jobs under the state of art, starting from designing fields computer models and carrying out reserves estimation and audit based on these models, fields development schemes and other technological documents up to working out of investment programmes and their industrial implementation based on turn-key basis.

• increase of competitive ability of the Russian service companies abroad with establishing major domestic company afterwards;
• creation of economical capabilities for modern technical and software provision of domestic technologies;
• creation of advanced technologies’ fund in the field of oil refinery and enhanced oil recovery.

• modelling and scientific-technical maintenance;
• tracer injection;
• well drilling including horizontal and side-track well bores;
• hydraulic fracturing;
• biopolymers;
• well workover;
• deep perforation;
• insulation works;
• bottom hole treatment;
• ecological monitoring;
• information and analysis provision of fields;
• hedging.

PRESENTATION OF TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP