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Offshore Russia

Contractors are Schlum- and part processed into

Exploration berger and Western Geco LNG for export.

activity using Kirkenes and GAC This concept did result

The southern part of the for- merly disputed area between and Henriksen Shipping, in acceptable economics

Norway and Russia has been using Unex as base and ma- and led to no investment rine services contractors. decision. licensed to a consortium of

British and Russian vessels Further development

Rosneft and Eni. The com- were employed. favors production of LNG panies plan seismic surveys

Some like it cold… Arctic Europe only. The former partners of for later this year. This area

Production the SDAG continue to study includes the large Fedyn High activity improved concepts.

structure.

ery capability of places and ports

Shtokman

The northern part of the

Shtokman is one of the such Hammerfest and Kirkenes

Prirazlomnoje formerly disputed area, world’s largest offshore comes into its own. Here we fnd

This is the frst commercial named Perseyevsky, has gas felds. Estimated that capability outweighs the extra offshore oil development been licensed to a consor- resources are 3.8Tcm of distance.

in the Arctic, operated by tium of Rosneft and Statoil.

Gazprom. Prirazlomnoje is

Even Rosneft decided to listen to

The agreement also includes gas and 37MMcm of gas condensate. located in the Pechora Sea, its suppliers last summer and chose acreage in the Okhotsk Sea,

The feld is located in the 500 nm east of Murmansk,

Kirkenes as a base port for its seis- which will be investigated

Russian Barents Sea, 338 south of Novaja Zemlja, in frst. Seismic investigations mic activities in the Kara Sea. nm from Kirkenes and about about 40m water depth.

in the Perseyevsky area will

The local expertise and capacity the same distance from

Prirazlomnoye feld has take place later.

in Norwegian ports have been built

Murmansk, in 320-340m reserves of 610MMbbl

According to the border up through base and maintenance water depth. (97MMcm). The estimated treaty between Norway and services to the Russian feet for 25

Seven wells have been maximum annual oil pro-

Russia, any possible border years. The main attraction is that drilled and thorough inves- duction volume is expected crossing structures will be the necessary experts, materials, tigations of different kinds to be 6.6 million tonnes.

subject to joint development and equipment can be shipped in have been conducted. Dif-

The feld development between the two countries.

overnight, taken on board, and used ferent concept studies have concept is based on a immediately. Also, vessels with ad- also been made.

single, stationary, ice-

Pechora Sea vanced instrumentation, which the

The most recent and de- resistant platform. The

According to Gazprom,

Russian military may not allow, can tailed study was carried out

Prirazlomnoje platform

Gazpromkeft Sakhalin has be used. When operators encounter by Shtokman Development is being built by Sevmash contracted a Rumanian technical problems, the details can

AG, a consortium compris- shipyard in Severodvinsk. jackup, , for

GSP Jupiter be addressed immediately, locally— ing Gazprom, Total, and

Produced oil will be drilling at the Dolginskaya or by overnight assistance from transported by double- feld. Both Murmanskaya and Statoil. This study conclud- anywhere in the world. It is also ben- ed with a technical solution acting shuttle oil tankers

Energy Exerter have drilled based on a disconnectable efcial that Norwegian businesses, and

Mikhail Ulyanov Kirill wells on this feld before.

FPSO at the feld, with load- communities, and infrastructure are , built in the Admi-

Lavrov ing of gas condensate at the ralty Shipyard and operated aligned with industry standards for

Kara Sea feld and pipe transport of health, safety, and environment.

by Sovcomfot, to foating

Large areas in the Kara the gas to Teriberka, 136km storage and offoading ves-

What has been described above in

Sea have been licensed to east of Murmansk. From sel , located in

Belokamenka just a few lines makes a world of dif- a consortium of Rosneft there, part of the gas would

Kola Bay near Murmansk. ference between success and failure.

and ExxonMobil. Extensive be piped to St. Petersburg

After several years of seismic exploration was

And that is why development is delay, production will start carried out last year and exploding in Kirkenes. It offers a soon. n will continue this summer. deep, sheltered harbor, calm cli- mate, and a good airport. Moreover,

Kirkenes is on the Russian border, within the forward-thinking, visa- free zone when it comes to Norwe- gian-Russian cooperation.

To meet new requirements, nearly 1200 acres of new industrial and

The Deepsea Delta port areas are being developed for semisubmersible base operations, port activities and drilled wells in trans-shipment, as well as tempo-

Shtokman feld.

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