Economic efficiency of nanoparticle application in Russian oil industry

The article considers issues of improving the efficiency of oil production based on expanding the scope of nanotechnology in Russian oil industry. This study examines Samaraneftegaz JSC’s production business processes as its subject, with a focus on nanotechnology-based transformation. The aim is to develop activities that will significantly increase the oil recovery factor at one of the industrial production facilities. In the framework of achieving the set goal, it is necessary to solve a number of tasks: research possible spheres of application of nanoparticles in oil and gas industry and methods of their use, study varieties of nanoparticles and their physical properties, economic evaluation of implementation of measures based on innovative nanotechnologies. We carried out the economic evaluation using simulation modeling, which formed the basis for programming economic and mathematical models of the basic and recommended production facility exploitation variants. Scientific novelty lies in the practical modernization of the business process of oil production, taking into account specific conditions and production indicators of one of the fields in Samara Oblast. The results of the research are the “technological map” and calculation of economic efficiency of application of metallic sodium nanoparticles based on one of the fields of Samaraneftegaz JSC with declining production and high level of water cut and wear of surface infrastructure. The peculiarity of the authors’ approach is the use of factor analysis during forming the list of project costs and technological detailing in the process of compiling the economic model of the field and the B2 reservoir in particular.