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Gazprom Neft commissions new

oil infrastructure in West Siberia

RUSSIA GAZPROM Neft has started operating a con- Gazprom Neft said at the start of last year
densate stabilisation unit for the Pestsovoye gas it expected to produce 2.8mn tonnes per year
Gazprom Neft is field in the Yamalo-Nenets region, the company (56,000 barrels per day) of liquid hydrocar-
developing oil rims at reported on March 15. bons and 4.3bn cubic metres per year of gas
gas fields belonging The unit will produce natural gas liquids from Pestsovoye and another Gazprom field
to its parent company (NGLs) that can be delivered via the Yam- in Western Siberia, En-Yakhinskoye. The com-
Gazprom. burg-Urengoy pipeline to a plant in Novy pany said it had employed innovative solutions
Urengoy that will use them to produce stable at the projects, including the aerial monitoring
condensate that will pass into the Arctic-Purpe of construction work, and the delivery of mobile
pipeline. modular oil production and treatment systems,
The project was developed as part of a planned helping to speed up development.
new production complex to develop oil rims at The development of oil rims was meant
the Pestovoye field. That complex includes a new to play a critical role in Gazprom Neft’s aim
central oil gathering unit, launched in December to expand production to 100mn tonnes of oil
last year, and will include a gas treatment unit equivalent per year (2mn boepd). Prior to this,
and a gas compressor station. Gazprom Neft was targeting a 10% hike in
Oil rims are thin layers of oil that are covered hydrocarbon output from 101.43mn tonnes of
typically by a much larger volume of gas, and oil equivalent (2.04mn boepd).
are present at a number of Siberia’s largest gas According to Russian state statistics, Gaz-
deposits. Gazprom has enlisted its oil arm Gaz- prom Neft produced 59.1mn tonnes (1.19mn
prom Neft to exploit them in recent years under bpd) of oil and 50.5 bcm (841,000 boepd) of gas,
risk-operatorship agreements. Gazprom in turn suggesting that despite the challenges, its target
receives a fee for the produced volumes. was met. ™

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