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Novatek acquires new Arctic gas tract
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
RUSSIA’S Novatek has received rights to the Bukharinsky oil and gas block on the Gydan Peninsula, after the Russian government approved the result of a subsoil auction held last December.
Novatek now has a 27-year exploration and production licence for the block, held through its wholly owned subsidiary Arctic LNG-1. The area spans 2,447 square km of Gydan and the Taz and Ob bays, and is estimated to contain up to 1.19 trillion cubic metres of gas and 74mn tonnes of liquids in place.
Novatek paid RUB2.35bn ($38mn) for the licence, up from an initial asking price of RUB2.13bn.
Bukharinsky borders Novatek’s Solet- sko-Khanaveyskoye field and its Trekhbugorny licence area. Soletsk-Khanaveyskoye is expected to serve as the main resource base for the com- pany’s Arctic LNG-1 export project.
Arctic LNG-1 is predicted to produce up to 20mn tonnes per year (tpy) of super-cooled gas
at full capacity. But the project is still at the design phase, and Novatek is yet to say when it expects to take a final investment decision (FID).
Arctic LNG-1’s trains are to be built at the Utrenny terminal Novatek is constructing on Gydan. Utrenny will also house the trains of the 19.8mn tpy Arctic LNG-2 project, due to come on stream in 2020. The government has report- edly just approved plans to expand Utrenny’s size to accommodate both projects.
Novatek is also building a new shipyard for its Arctic LNG projects at Murmansk. According to recent reports, the area has become a hotspot for coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. The number of confirmed cases at the Novatek site reached 290 on April 20, according to the Murmansk government.
Earlier, Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that a state of emergency had been declared at the site. And the local government is understood to have deployed a mobile hospital to Belokamenka to handle the outbreak.™
CCC wins Arctic LNG-2 contracts
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
COMPRESSOR Controls Corp. (CCC), a division of US-based Roper Technologies, announced on April 22 that it had been awarded several contracts by Russia’s Novatek relating to the Arctic LNG 2 project.
CCC, which specialises in LNG turboma- chinery controls, noted that the contracts marked an extension of its collaboration with Novatek. It had previously worked on turboma- chinery optimisation and standardisation for the Russian company’s Yamal LNG project, which entered service in 2017.
Arctic LNG 2 will consist of three liquefac- tion trains, each with a capacity of 6.6mn tonnes per year, for a combined capacity of 19.8mn tpy. The project is located in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region’s Gydan Peninsula.
Under the contracts, CCC will oversee the turbomachinery controls and optimisation of centrifugal compressors and expanders for all three of the facility’s trains. The company said that in addition to spearheading anti-surge, per- formance, quench and other advanced controls, it would provide an emulator for use during plant simulation.
“These contracts recognise CCC’s perfor- mance on the Yamal LNG project and allow us to continue strengthening our partnership with Novatek,” CCC’s director of global projects, Osama Abou Shabab, stated. “We’re proud that Novatek has entrusted our global team to con- trol all critical and non-critical machines in its
CCC previously worked on turbomachinery optimisation and standardisation for Novatek’s Yamal LNG project.
hallmark Arctic LNG 2 project. CCC’s field- tested, proven control techniques and algo- rithms will maintain and improve the project’s targeted RAM.”
The trains for Arctic LNG 2 will be built using gravity-based structures (GBS) – a concept that Novatek describes on its website as innovative. The company is cutting costs related to its spend- ing on the project by sourcing equipment and materials within Russia.
TechnipFMC was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for Arctic LNG 2 last year. The contractor also worked on Yamal LNG, and said it would be lev- eraging its track record with modular fabrication on that project as it proceeded with Arctic LNG 2.
The first train at the $21bn terminal is antici- pated to enter service in 2023.™
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