Ukraine’s Oilfield Services Market

The study aims to provide a detailed analysis of Ukraine’s oilfield services market, including an overview of oil producers’ key performance indicators in production, drilling, well interventions, application of enhanced oil recovery techniques, etc. Separately, we reviewed the drilling segments, including sidetracking, workovers and well servicing, hydraulic fracturing, coiled tubing operations, and cementing. The report offers a forecast of production rates and meters drilled covering the period from 2012 through 2020.

RPI has kept track of the CIS member states’ oil production sectors for over 20 years, which enables our specialists to develop in-depth analyses of the opportunities and evolutionary risks associated with production projects in these countries. We have used the insights and experience gained in this process as a basis for this report in order to evaluate the growth potential of Ukraine’s oilfield services market.

This study presents detailed data on major oilfield service companies working in Ukraine and their historical business performance. It thoroughly reviews the investment climate in each country and potential risks, and analyses new players’ opportunities for Ukraine’s oilfield services market.

The key sections of the report provide insights on the following:
• Key performance data for the exploration and production sector. This section presents the sector’s major performance indicators: meters drilled, rates of production, and scopes of well servicing and workover operations.
• Overview of major customers. This section looks at customer requirements for drilling, well intervention and enhanced oil recovery applications. It also discusses the sector’s new promising projects.
• Key customer profiles. The section focuses on the companies’ main operating regions and services they provide, as well as on the oilfield service companies’ productive capabilities.
• Medium-term forecast of production and drilling for 2012 through 2020. This section assesses the future prospects of major production projects and producers’ drilling plans.
• Comments on the future of oilfield service providers’ operations in Ukraine’s market. The section offers insights on oilfield service companies’ growth prospects in Ukraine’s market (in particular identifying promising market segments), analyses the main risks and offers recommendations regarding individual companies’ potential presence in the region.

This product could be an important strategic decision-making tool for oilfield service providers and oilfield service equipment manufacturers that consider Ukraine’s market as part of their business growth plans. The report helps evaluate opportunities for oilfield service providers’ involvement in major oil and gas production projects in Ukraine and better understand risks and risk mitigation approaches.

The forecasts and assumptions regarding the probable future growth of Ukraine’s oilfield services market, including the projections of production and drilling contained in the study, are based on a thorough analysis of information obtained from reliable sources. This allows us to predict growth prospects, opportunities, risks and threats for both the sector as a whole and its individual players.

Conclusions

1 Main indicators of the oil and gas industry

1.1 Oil production

1.2 Gas production

2 Oilfield Services Market in Ukraine

2.1 Exploration drilling

2.2 Development drilling

2.3 Major customers

2.3.1 NAC Naftogaz of Ukraine

2.3.2 Ukrneft

2.3.3 Chernomorneftegaz

2.3.4 Ukrgazdobycha

2.3.5 ZAO Neftegazdobycha

2.3.6 ZAO Natural Resources

2.3.7 Regal Petroleum

2.3.8 JV Poltava Petroleum Company

2.4 Principle contractor profiles

2.4.1 Ukrburgaz

2.4.2 OOO Ukrburservis

3 Production and Drilling Forecast for 2012-2020

3.1 Oil production forecast

3.2 Gas production forecast

3.3 Drilling forecast

4 Comments Regarding Prospects for Service Companies in Ukraine

Chart 1. Forecasts for Ukrainian oil field services market dynamics, 2011-2020, USD million.

Chart 2. Contributions by segments to the growth of the Ukrainian oil field services market, 2012-2020, %

Chart 1-1. Crude oil and condensate production in Ukraine in 2001-2011, mln tons

Chart 1-2. Natural gas production in Ukraine in 2001-2011, bln cu. m per year

Chart 2-1. Dynamics of exploration drilling in Ukraine in 2001-2011, thousand meters

Chart 2-2. Dynamics of growth of hydrocarbon reserves, mln TOE

Chart 2-3. Share of exploration drilling on land and offshore in Ukraine, 2011, %

Chart 2-4. Dynamics of development drilling in Ukraine in 2001-2011, thousand m per year

Chart 2-5. Dynamics of development drilling by Naftogaz of Ukraine and other companies in 2006-2011, thousand m per year

Chart 2-6. Share land and offshore development drilling in Ukraine in 2011, %

Chart 2-7. Neftegazdobycha annual oil and gas production in 2007-2011, mln cubic meters

Chart 2-8. Oil and Gas production Natural Resources in 2007-2011.

Chart 2-9. Oil and Gas production Regal Petroleum in 2007-2011.

Chart 2-10. Oil and Gas production JV Poltava Petroleum Company in 2007-2011.

Chart 2-11. Drilling market shares of major drilling contractors in Ukraine in 2011, %

Chart 3-1. Oil and gas condensate forecast for 2012-2020, mln tons

Chart 3-2. Annual gas production forecast in Ukraine in 2012-2030, bln cu. m (baseline scenario)

Chart 3-3. Annual exploration drilling forecast in Ukraine by 2020, thousand m

Chart 3-4. Forecast of development drilling in Ukraine in 2020, thousands of meters a year

Table 1. Ukrainian oil field services market capacity by segments, USD million, 2011

Table 2. Profile of the production and oil field services industry in Ukraine

Table 1-1. Oil and condensate production in Ukraine by major producers in 2010-2011, thousand tons

Table 1-2. Gas production in Ukraine by major producers in 2010-2011, mln.cu. m per year

Table 2-1. Offshore development in the Ukrainian Black Sea in 2010-2012, wells

Table 2-2. Dynamics of NAC Naftogaz of Ukraine development wells in 2009-2011

Table 2-3. Performance indicators of Ukrneft in 2011

Table 2-4. Performance Indicators of Chernomorneftegas in 2011

Table 2-5. Performance Indicators "Ukrgazdobycha" in 2011

Table 2-6. Performance indicators Neftegazdobycha in 2011.

Table 2-7. List of major oilfield service companies present in Ukraine, 2011

Table 2-8. Production capacity of the major contractors in the Ukraine, 2011

Table 3-1. Oil and condensate production forecast in Ukraine under several scenarios for the period until 2030, mln tons

Table 3-2. Forecast of gas production in Ukraine in a number of scenarios for the period up to 2030, billion cubic meters