Page 56: of Offshore Engineer Magazine (Jun/Jul 2013)

55 57

reserves with new Burmistrova says Gazprom is technology.” looking to expand at Sakhalin and is

Speaking at LNG currently moving through the pre-feed 17 in Houston this phase for a third LNG train, with com- past April, Jason pletion to follow in July. The company

Bennett, Moscow- expects to make an investment decision

Offshore Russia based Baker Botts in 3Q 2013.

partner in the LNG investments continue with global projects Gazprom’s Vladivostok project, located practice, told on the west coast of Amur bay on reporters that he the Lomonosov peninsula. It will be

Elena Burmistrova, Gazprom’s deputy general director expects at least sourced through the company’s felds

Photo: courtesy of LNG 17 of oil and gas products, LNG and new markets, speaks at one Russian Arctic off Sakhalin. Gazprom estimates

LNG 17 in Houston.

LNG project to that Sakhalin-3 contains 49 Tcf of president, international projects and begin production in the next 10 years. gas resources and 323Bcm of proven new business development at TNK-BP, Vakulenko’s counterpart at Gazprom reserves. Burmistrova says that the area discussed Russia’s need to urgently Elena Burmistrova, the deputy gen- is a prime location considering its mild develop its Arctic resources, saying that eral director of oil and gas products, climate with no ice in the jetty area, it must be done in the next seven years. LNG and new markets, told delegates and it already has infrastructure such “It hasn’t been done in this time at LNG 17 that despite delays at as direct railway and road access.

frame,” he says. “[An] average offshore Sakhalin-2, the company ramped up Neither Vakulenko nor Burmistrova project takes 10-15 years. Russian production efforts last year, operating see Russia pursuing unconventionals companies have never been profcient the LNG plant at 114% capacity. The within the next decade.

working offshore. We’re accustomed to company is now producing over the “Conventionals are much more those challenges and we can increase 9.6MTPA design capacity. attractive,” Burmistrova says.

Kursk tragedy inspires deep-sea diving system design he Kursk tragedy in 2000 The system is a unique design that These four chambers accommodate identifed a need for a Russian accommodates 12 divers in saturation, divers at their equivalent working submarine rescue ship after 118 allowing three-man bell excursions pressure and provide decompression

T sailors and offcers perished when the to 450m depth to gain access to a facilities for rescued submariners.

nuclear-powered, cruise-missile sub- stricken submarine. It also accommo- Divex, which has built 100 saturation marine sank in the Barents Sea. dates up to 60 rescued submariners in diving systems since 1974, will split

As a response, the Russian the chamber complex, if any require manufacturing between two locations.

Admiralty is constructing the Igor decompression following rescue. The system decompression cham-

Belousov, a rescue ship, to be commis- The system comprises four accom- bers, diving bell, and control system sioned in 2014. The ship is to support modation chambers arranged around will be built in Perth, Western a variety of rescue missions, which a central “transfer-under-pressure” Australia, while the bell deployment, include the search, rescue, and salvage chamber, where divers put on their life support, and gas management of submarines in distress. equipment and access the diving bell. systems will be manufactured and sup-

Igor Belousov is to be equipped plied from Divex headquarters in with a deep-sea diving system Aberdeen.

from Scottish diving equipment All environmental control manufacturer Divex. systems (ECS) equipment will be

Divex has designed and is manufactured at Divex’s facil- manufacturing and supplying ity in Cape Town, South Africa, the 450m-rated, deep-satura- making the system a truly inter- tion diving system for Divex’s national project.

Russian partners, Tetis Pro Ltd., Final equipment testing will and ultimately for the Russian be carried out at the facto-

A graphic

Admiralty. The system is to ries. The system is due to be visualization of the be installed in partnership delivered by July, within the

Igor Belousov diving system. between Divex and Moscow- 12-month contract window for (Courtesy of Divex) based Tetis Pro. acceptance-testing readiness. 

OE | June 2013 oedigital.com 58 056OE_0613Russia_Cera_Div.indd 58 5/29/13 11:45 AM