Information technologies in Surgutneftegaz

2024: Summing up digitalization - IT waste accounting system and drones

Surgutneftegas is actively introducing modern information technologies in all areas of activity in order to increase productivity, improve financial performance and reduce the negative impact on the environment. The company's digitalization projects are described in a report that TAdviser got acquainted with at the end of July 2025.

It is noted that Surgutneftegas is faced with the need to process constantly growing volumes of data. The use of digital tools simplifies the collection and analysis of significant amounts of environmental information, accelerates the preparation of projects, obtaining approvals, and generating and submitting reports in electronic form. This optimizes the procedure for issuing permits and increases the effectiveness of management decisions.

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Surgutneftegas forms a single digital space for solving problems in the field of ecology and nature management. For this, comprehensive automation of various functional blocks of environmental activities is carried out, unified electronic databases and information systems are created. The Company introduces artificial intelligence technologies to improve the efficiency of environmental control and minimize the negative impact of production on the environment. Digital tools are used to take into account the movement of waste (including drilling cuttings), as well as objects of their accumulation.

A system of spatial analysis of environmental risks of production activities in specially protected natural areas was introduced. Surgutneftegas maintains a centralized record of the documentation related to the fulfillment of the conditions for the use of subsoil resources in terms of the extraction of fresh groundwater and common useful minerals (peat), as well as the conditions of water use agreements and decisions on the provision of water bodies for use. A special register of licenses for the use of subsoil for the extraction of fresh groundwater has been formed. Digital tools are used in the preparation of statistical documentation and reporting on the technogenic load on the environment, as well as in the organization of measures for environmental protection and rational use of natural resources.

The digital transformation of state authorities dictates new requirements and formats of interaction when issuing permits and submitting reporting documents, and we follow the innovations being introduced. We believe that digitalization in the field of environmental protection contributes to an increase in production indicators and financial results, "says Anatoly Nuryaev, First Deputy General Director of Surgutneftegaz.

Special attention is paid to diagnostics of technical condition and assessment of possible risks during operation of flowlines. Unmanned aerial vehicles are used for their remote monitoring. In addition, environmental monitoring is underway using aerial and space surveys.

In 2024, the company continued to transfer its IT infrastructure to import-independent components. Other priorities are the organization of high-quality digital interaction with government authorities and the further development of IT platforms. In general, the information systems operated by the company's environmental services make it possible to effectively solve the daily tasks of monitoring compliance with environmental standards and monitor the state of the environment.^[1]

2023: TAdviser interview with IT chief Rinat Gimranov

At the ITSMIR conference "IT sovereignty: myths and reality," which was held on June 5-7 in Repino, we talked with Rinat Gimranov, head of the information technology department of Surgutneftegas, about what IT sovereignty is, about the current processes of relations between the state and commercial companies and other pressing issues of the IT industry. Read more here.

2021: CIO "Surgutneftegaz" Rinat Gimranov: IT labor market went crazy

The IT labor market has "gone crazy," something incredible is happening on it, Rinat Gimranov, head of the information technology department of Surgutneftegaz, said at an industry forum in September 2021, speaking about the situation with personnel. IT expertise in the company, he said, has become very difficult to maintain.

For Surgutneftegaz, this is a critical issue, because the company adheres to an organic growth strategy and relies mainly on IT insourcing, on its own expertise, Gimranov added.

Rinat Gimranov notes that against the background of what is happening on the IT labor market, it became difficult to maintain expertise

The epidemiological situation associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus has pushed digitalization in all industries and led to a surge in demand for IT specialists in Russia. So, according to HeadHunter, announced in September, over the year the demand for programmers in Russia increased by 72%. And after the demand, the salaries of the developers also increased.

The shortage of IT personnel, which has been talked about in Russia for several years, in the "coronavirus time," has become even more acute, including in the oil and gas sector. Back in 2020, according to IRTTEK, in this industry, about 89% of the surveyed companies announced a shortage of technical personnel^[2].

At the industry forum, Rinat Gimranov also expressed the opinion that in the next 3-5 years the personnel shortage in the IT sector will not disappear, and the personnel turnover will remain^[3] the^[4].

Vice President, Director of the Ural Macro-Regional Branch of Ural Rostelecom Sergey Gusev at the same event said that in the Yamal divisions of their company every year IT specialists almost completely change, because they are lured away by other companies where more salary and more interesting tasks.

The problem of luring IT specialists in the field of the fuel and energy complex and telecom in the context of an acute shortage of personnel can be solved by creating joint groups whose members would work in their companies, but at the same time solve an interesting and global problem, Gusev believes.

2017: Report of "Surgutneftegaz": army of drones, transition to PostgreSQL and other key IT projects

In the annual report for 2017, Surgutneftegas spoke about the key IT projects implemented during the reporting period and modern technologies that have become widespread in the company. It notes, in particular, that recently the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various areas of activity has been widely used in the company.

In recent years, the range of tasks solved with their help has significantly expanded: environmental monitoring of the state of work facilities, identification of spill sites, control over industrial and fire safety, inspection of highways, which made it possible to reduce the cost of using aviation equipment, transport costs for pipeline bypasses, and start creating a single structured database of monitoring facilities, - reports "Surgutneftegas."

Import substitution of software was in the focus of Surgutneftegaz in 2017 "(photo - gazeta.ru)"

In turn, to ensure technological independence and reduce the cost of purchasing licenses and technical support for software in 2017, Surgutneftegaz's server information system (GIS) was replaced with a freely distributed DBMS, which was accepted for use in new implemented projects. Which DBMS was migrated to is not specified in the report, but earlier representatives of Surgutneftegaz wrote in their article in the journal "Oil Economy" about replacing Oracle with PostgreSQL in the geoinformation system^[5].

It is worth recalling that at the beginning of 2018, Oracle tightened the conditions for the provision of products and services to Russian customers from the oil and gas industry included in the US sanctions list. Since January 29, Oracle has been banned from both new deals with them and the extension, modification and renewal of existing contracts. The ban affected, among other things, Surgutneftegaz.

In addition, as part of the work to replace imported software in 2017, Surgutneftegas put into commercial operation its own development program GeoPro.

Regarding the development of GIS in 2017, the company developed and implemented a technology for linking capital construction facilities in GIS with the corporate information system, and finalized the Atlas of Highways information system. In particular, the calculation of the time limits for moving during maintenance of oilfield and drilling equipment was developed, and the calculation of routes to the design facilities was implemented.

As part of the development of information systems for managing production processes in 2017, Surgutneftegas put into pilot operation a system for planning, recording and monitoring the implementation of well workovers, developed to improve the quality of planning and execution of hydraulic fracturing, and reduce the unproductive time of teams during well workovers.

In the reporting year, a system was implemented at Surgutneftegas oilfield facilities to automatically detect deviations in the operation of electric centrifugal pump units in order to take timely measures to prevent equipment failures.

In the reporting year, the function of automatic centralized distribution of vehicles for applications for the transportation of goods was developed, which made it possible to release 170 pieces of equipment during the year.

In the oil and gas production sector, control over technological processes in the company is carried out using telemechanics integrated with the information systems "OKO," "video wall," "Unified system of operational work with the well stock," NPK "Alpha." Since 2016, the level of telemechanization of the measurement of the production well stock, the level of telecontrol of the mechanized well stock and the level of equipping the production well stock with water injection meters has reached 100%.

During 2017, 587 injection wells and 1,284 mechanized wells were connected to telemechanics systems, and 2 unified telemechanics systems were introduced at new fields.

2016: Unified Information System and 22 thousand application users on SAP

Surgutneftegas decided to start cooperation with SAP in 1998. Since then, the company's solutions have been used to automate the most important aspects of the enterprise. As of 2016, more than 22 thousand employees of Surgutneftegaz were users of the SAP ERP system and other applications on the SAP platform.

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