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03
september 2023

On August 23 to 25, 2023, Russian city Ufa, hosted the annual Petroleum Discussion Forum, DECOM-2023, attracting a diverse array of participants and experts from the oil and gas sector.

DECOM-23 spanned over three days and brought together representatives from across the industry, including oil and gas production, oil service companies, scientific institutions, and universities from Russia. With over 150 participants joining in-person across 35 organizations and over 550 more joining online, the forum featured 60 industry-specific presentations and a total of 26 hours of engaging content.

Key discussions at the forum covered a range of critical topics, including integrated asset development and management, mathematical modelling in petroleum engineering, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing technologies, well telemetry, automation, telemetry data analysis, underground gas storage monitoring, and multi-well diagnostics for oil reservoirs. Notably, a panel discussion explored topics such as standardizing geological and field data storage, applying artificial intelligence in hydrocarbon deposit design and development, and securing intellectual property for technological solutions.

DECOM-2023, now in its seventh year, continues to captivate the attention of all oil and gas industry sectors, with increasing number of participants, partners, and like-minded professionals joining the event. The event was hosted at the Sheraton Plaza Congress Hotel Ufa, uniting representatives from leading Russian oil and gas operating and service companies, as well as scientific research institutions and academic institutions from major Russian cities.

The forum's key discussions centred on the management, control, monitoring, and development of oil and gas reservoirs. Attendees had access to insights and knowledge from industry leaders through interviews, industry-specific presentations, discussions, panel sessions, masterclasses, and technical presentations, fostering a dynamic and diverse experience.

DECOM-2023 featured nine technological forum sessions showcasing innovative solutions and experiences from prominent organizations such as Gazpromneft NTC LLC, Tatneft PJSC, Bashneft-PETROTEST LLC, RN-BashNIPIneft LLC, VNIIneft JSC, and SOFOIL LLC. Meanwhile, masterclasses and technical presentations were delivered by representatives from the leading institutions and companies, further enriching the forum's content.

As per tradition, PetroCup Tournament was run throughout the event, focusing on well and reservoir management. This year the tournament comprised seven teams from oil and gas operating companies, industry scientific institutions, and specialized higher education institutions.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Oil and Gas Forum, DECOM-2024, set to take place in Moscow from April 22 to 24, 2024. Organizers eagerly anticipate the continuation of vital discussions on industry trends and challenges.

See you at DECOM-2024, where the oil and gas industry's future awaits!

02
september 2023

In accordance with the established tradition of the DECOM Forum, its participants had the opportunity to choose the host city for the next year.

The following Russian cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, Tyumen, Samara, and others, were nominated for DECOM-2024.

The voting results were announced on August 25 during the closing ceremony of the Forum, with the majority of votes cast for Moscow.

In April 2024, Moscow will host DECOM, representing the capital of Russia. Moscow boasts rich national traditions in the oil and gas industry and is a hub for the oil and gas sector, scientific achievements in this field, as well as the development of cutting-edge technologies and solutions for this industry.

01
november 2022

Following each DECOM, participants are given the opportunity to vote on the city where the event will be held the following year.

The following Russian cities have been nominated for DECOM-2023: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Sochi, Tyumen, Orenburg, and others.

According to the poll results, which were announced on October 7 at DECOM 2022 closing ceremony, Ufa (Republic of Bashkortostan) received the majority of the votes.

The next DECOM will be held on August 23-25, 2023 in Ufa, one of Russia's most iconic oil and gas cities known for its ongoing development of oil and gas industry and advanced scientific technologies.

Furthermore, Ufa is home to the branches of Bashneft-Petrotest, BashNIPIneft, and Ufa Scientific and Technical Center, all of which have long been DECOM 2023 participants and Nafta College partners.

Register now for DECOM-2023

24
october 2022

The annual DECOM-2022 Petroleum Discussion Forum was held in St. Petersburg on October 5-7, 2022, with over 150 delegates joining in-person from various cities in the Russian Federation. Over 800 participants attended the event online.

As always, PetroCup Field Development Tournament was run during the event. Every PetroCup Tournaments always piques the interest of operating companies, oilfield service companies, and university representatives. And this year was no different.

The PetroCup Tournament was held at Azimut Hotel in Saint Petersburg. In total 11 national teams attended, comprising Russian oil and gas companies, research institutes, specialized higher educational institutions from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Ufa, Almetyevsk, Perm and Orenburg. Overt 120 members took part in PetroCup Tournament. 5 national teams participated in person and 6 teams joined online.

Over the course of three days, the participants were challenged, and each team had to perform to their best ability by applying available knowledge and experience of different professions.

This year's PetroCup Tournament featured a brand new synthetic tutorial asset, which is far more challenging with far more functionality available to the user. The new asset, was added to the extensive Nafta College library of synthetic assets, and was first presented at DECOM.

According to the standings, the Tatneft (Silur) team secured the first place by achieving a fantastic result, the team of the Ufa Scientific and Technical Center (Yura) came second, and university team from St. Petersburg Mining University (Devon) came third.

The Nafta College team sends best regards to the winners and to all teams which joined the PetroCup Tournament, we are looking forward to seeing everyone next year at the next Tournament, which will be held on August 23-25, 2023 in Ufa (Republic of Bashkortostan) as part of the DECOM-2023 Petroleum Discussion Forum.

24
october 2022

The annual DECOM-2022 Petroleum Discussion Forum was held in St. Petersburg on October 5-7, 2022, with over 150 delegates joining in-person from various cities in the Russian Federation. Over 800 participants attended the event online.

The DECOM Forum is being held for the sixth time, and the need for this specialized professional business platform is always expanding in the field development community, with new participants, partners, and people who share a common interest.

Each year, the success of the DECOM is ensured by its unique discussion format, which transforms this business event into an exciting journey that brings together top professionals and talented specialists in reservoir engineering under one roof.

This year, the 3-day event was hosted at Azimut Hotel, bringing together delegations and individual representatives and experts from leading Russian oil and gas producing and oilfield service companies, scientific and academic institutes, and specialized higher educational institutions from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Ufa, Almetyevsk, Perm and Orenburg.

Typically, the key topics of DECOM presentations and discussions focus on management, monitoring and planning field development. As always, attendees could access interviews with leading industry experts from Russia and other countries, industry-specific presentations, after presentation discussions, panel discussions, live demos and e-posters.

As always, attendees could access interviews with leading industry experts from Russia and other countries, industry-specific presentations, after presentation discussions, panel discussions, live demos and e-posters.

The following companies presented live demos and e-posters at the event: SurgutNIPIneft, Ufa STC, VNIIneft, Gazpromneft STC, Neovell, Sofoil, Polycod, Gazpromneft-Noyabrskneftegazgeofizika, RN-BashNIPIneft

Per tradition, throughout DECOM there was PetroCup Tournament comprising 11 teams from various operating companies, academic institutes and petroleum universities.

Nafta College, which organized the event, received numerous positive responses from Forum participants, as well as additional suggestions for the project's development and offers of collaboration.

Next year, DECOM-2023 Discussion Forum will be held on August 23-25, 2022 in Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

See you at DECOM-2023!

25
august 2022

STC Gazprom Neft is one of the session owners of the Petroleum Discussion Forum DECOM-2022

Earlier this week, the company announced the topic for this year's DECOM would be: "Gas EOR - the key to improving the field development efficiency of low–permeable reservoirs." This session will be presented by Evgeny Sergeev, the Head of the Gas Projects Competence Center.

The company would also feature in the "Interview with experts" session, with the topic: "Development of hydraulic fracturing technologies in STC Gazprom Neft". The speaker for this interview would be the leading expert of STC Gazprom Neft, Ruslan Gainetdinov, Head of the Hydraulic Fracturing Development Competence Center

STC Gazprom Neft will present on October 5, during the first day of DECOM-2022.

DECOM-2022 Registration: https://decom.club/events/2022/registration/

29
april 2022

The annual Petroleum Discussion Forum DECOM will be held in St. Petersburg on October 5-7. The event will run face-fo-face and will also feature a support for online participants.

DECOM-2022 will continue to keep its distinctive format of being a professional intellectual industry platform addressing the trending industry challenges.

The event will run for 3 days and will consist of 12 sessions comprising general discussions, panel discussions and interviews with experts. All participants will gain access to e-Posters, poster session, live demos with real equipment, software and methodologies for data processing and interpretation.

Throughout the event, all participants will have a chance to take part in industry specific quizzes and a get your hands on one of a kind field development simulator - PetroCup.

Current industry challenges, novel scientific advances and trends, technological challenges, current and anticipated industry news, groundbreaking industry solutions, state-of-the-art innovative technologies, skill and knowledge sharing, presentations on new developments, lively discussions, debates, industry specific panel discussions and quizzes, live presentations of leading industry experts – all of this and much more await you at DECOM-2022.

Early registration for the event is now open:

https://decom.club/events/2022/registration/

See you soon!

01
may 2021
This year, DECOM-2021 is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nikolai Neprimerov’s Birth. He was a prominent Soviet and Russian physicist who helped to educate a number of talented scientists.

Nafta College honors all our professors and mentors and will always remember Nikolai Neprimerov who provided us with technology of the future and a new paradigm to scientific research.

He developed a number of unique technologies that significantly increase the production rate and oil recovery while reducing production costs.

25
november 2019
The forum organizers have already started preparing for DECOM-2021. Will be held online on september - october, 2021 .

The well-established event will retain its unique and approved format of a professional intellectual industry platform for open discussion covering a wide range of tasks, solutions and challenges in the field of design, analysis, monitoring and management of oil and gas field development.

The main theme of the fifth DECOM-2021 forum will be the dedicated towards digital transformation of the industry, which is relevant for all specialists of the modern Russian industry.

See you soon!

23
november 2019
The IV annual Oil&Gas discussion forum DECOM-2020 for the first time was held online on November 18-20, 2020. The event was open to everyone.

Participants were able to view the broadcast from both: the Zoom platform and on YouTube. The total number of views exceeded 3000 mark.

Among the invited experts were representatives from top companies and universities including: Bashneft-Petrotest, Gazprom Neft, RN-Bashnipineft, Tatneft, NOVATEK-NTC, Nafta College, Sofoil, and Kazan Federal University. Throughout the event, all participants had a chance to get their hands on one of a kind field development simulator - PetroCup. Teams formed out of members from Gazprom Neft, Tatneft, NOVATEK-NTC, Bashneft-Petrotest, SevKomNeftegaz, RN-Bashnipineft, JSC VNIIneft (Zarubezhneft), as well as Kazan Federal University.

A team from Sevkomneftegaz came out victorious and proudly claimed the PetroCup trophy shortly followed by NOVATEK-NTC and Bashneft-Petrotest respectively. In addition to general sessions, over 40 technology related presentations and live demos were organized including: multi-well testing, analysis of sweep efficiency in cross-well interval, reservoir-oriented production logging, analysis of behind casing cross-flows, planning and managing the development, as well as live software demos and methodologies for data processing and interpretation.

The last forum made a wide appeal, therefore the event host - Nafta College already began preparations for the next DECOM-2021, which will be held in Moscow.

You can follow our latest news on the official DECOM website https://decom.club/en/

03
october 2019
The IV annual Oil&Gas discussion forum DECOM-2020 will be held online on November 18-20, 2020. This decision was made due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that poses some restrictions. DECOM-2020 will be open and available to everyone (free of charge).

The event is hosted in collaboration with Bashneft-Petrotest LLC .

During the 3-day event you will be able to witness 9 sessions, including general and panel discussions as well interviews with leading experts.

Along with the technical sessions there will be industry-specific live demos on the various disciplines including: well testing, movable oil/gas reserves analysis in cross-well space, reservoir-oriented production logging, identification of channellings, as well as field development planning and calculations of STOIP.

Throughout the event, all participants will have a chance to take part in theme specific quizzes and a get your hands on one of a kind field development simulator - PetroCup.

DECOM - A knowledge sharing event with open discussion of various issues associated with project planning, analysis, monitoring and management of oil and gas fields.

31
August 2019
III Oil & Gas Discussion Forum DECOM-2019 ended in Tyumen, with Gazpromneft STC as the general partner, and Nafta College as the organizer. A 3-days program consisting of 12 sessions was successfully completed, including discussions, debates, a round table and interviews with experts, electronic poster sessions (e-Posters), master classes with live demonstrations of tools, software and data processing and interpretation methodologies, traditional poster session. Thematic quizes and a specialized technological game for the field development of PetroCup were held for forum participants throughout the whole program. DECOM's fan zone was opened in the conference hall with a focus on IT technology.

At the end of the forum, on August 29, at the site of Tyumen State University, a highly specialized Technological Day was organized, dedicated to the latest technologies in production logging tools (PLT) and pressure transient analysis (PTA), with a focus on discussing hardware and software solutions. This event was attended by more than 150 representatives of the oil and gas industry. This time, the PetroCup was won by the team (from TGT and Tyumen State University). Nafta College began preparations for the next DECOM-2020 Forum, which will be held in Ufa. Follow the news on the official DECOM website.

12
march 2019

The "Gazprom Neft" company one of the major analytical and scientific - technical centers to support the processes of oil exploration and production, will participate as a General partner in the oil and Gas Discussion Forum DECOM-2019. As part of their support, representatives of the Scientific -Technical Center "Gazprom Neft" will lead two technological sessions, as well as take part in the exhibition organized within the framework of the Forum.

We would like to remind you that the discussion Forum DECOM-2019 will be held on August 26-28, 2019 in Tyumen. The concept of the Forum involves 12 technological sessions, each of which is planned to discuss a specific technological "challenge" facing the company and industry in the discussing areas of the club DECOM.

ВThroughout the programme of events for the participants of the forum will be themed quiz and specialized technological digital game of oilfields design - PetroCup.

26
June 2018

Registration is available on the Russian forum DECOM-2018 from 27 – 28 August 2018, Kazan

You can register on the site: DECOM

The final deadline for the submission of applications for the discussion of topics and classes: 01.08.2018

The final deadline for the submission of applications for the poster – session: 20.08.2018

On behalf of the Program committee of the forum, we envite the specialists of your company to participate and to share their knowledge and skills on the topic.

21
June 2018

We are pleased to announce the First Circular, which consists of a two-day program (August 27-28) - 8 sessions, including 4 discussions, debates, a round table and interviews with experts. During the breaks between the discussion sessions, master classes will take place with live demonstrations of equipment, software and methodologies for processing and interpreting data, poster session. Quotes will also be presented, based on unusual practical situations, and a thematic quest. The DECOM fan zone will function in the conference hall. During the whole program of the event, the intellectual-analytical on-line game PetroCup dedicated to the development of a synthetic deposit will be conducted.

On the 3rd day of the event (August 29), a Technology Day will be organized on the territory of Kazan Federal University, dedicated to the latest technologies for analysis of hydrodynamic research (HDR) and field geophysical research (GPR).

More details of the program of the upcoming event and the history of DECOM can be found at http://decom.club/en/

3
June 2018

We would like to announce that PJSC Tatneft, one of the largest Russian oil companies, an internationally recognized vertically integrated holding, confirmed participation in the 2nd All-Russia Forum DECOM-2018 as a sponsor. As part of their support, representatives of PAT "Tatneft" will make a report, as well as take part in the plenary sessions of the forum.

25
may 2018

We are pleased to announce that the company NTC Gazprom Neft, one of the major analytical and scientific and technical centers to support the processes of exploration and production of oil, will participate as a Gold Sponsor in the forthcoming All-Russian Forum DECOM-2018. As part of its support, the representatives of STC " Gazprom Neft "will present two thematic speeches on the analysis of specific examples from the company's work, the master class, and will also take part in the panel sessions of the forum.

4
may 2018

Dear colleagues, it became known the venue of the next All-Russian Forum DECOM-2018 - Kazan, Technopark IT-Park. You expect interesting discussions, master classes, quizzes and intellectual game PetroCup.

We invite everyone to take part to plunge into the dynamic environment of the Forum and the fabulous atmosphere of the city of Kazan.