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Model of the platform.
Source: Gazprom.

Gazprom lays foundation of first

offshore Arctic gas platform

RUSSIA RUSSIA’S Gazprom has held a foundation-lay- be a custom model. It will be 135 metres long, 69
ing ceremony for the ice-resistant platform it metres wide and 41 metres high, with a weight
The platform will be plans to deploy at the Kamennomysskoye-more of over 40,000 tonnes. The structures placed on
used to launch offshore gas field off the shore of the Yamal Peninsula in it will include main and auxiliary drilling units,
gas production in the the Gulf of Ob. power installations, living quarters and other
Russian Arctic. The ceremony took place at a shipyard in facilities.
Astrakhan belonging to state-owned United It will be firmly fixed on the muddy bottom
Shipbuilding Corp. (USC). Gazprom placed of the Gulf of Ob, with a piled gravity base foun-
an order with USC for the platform earlier this dation. Its underwater part will be filed with
month. water and fixed in place with 56 piles more than
Kamennomysskoye-more is expected to 2 metres in diameter and driven 47 metres into
become the first gas field on Russia’s Arctic shelf the seabed, Gazprom said.
to enter production. It is due on stream in 2025, Some 33 directional production wells will
and will flow 15bn cubic metres per year of gas be drilled from the facility under the first phase
from Cenomanian deposits at full capacity, of development, followed by a further 22 wells
according to Gazprom. Its reserves are estimated later on to maintain output. Gas will be fed into
at 555 bcm. pipelines for delivery onshore, where it will be
The field is situated in an area where tempera- pumped into Russia’s national grid. The produc-
tures can drop to up to minus 60 degrees Celsius ing, onshore Kamennomysskoye gas field is situ-
and there are sometimes heavy storms. The water ated adjacent to Kamennomysskoye-more.
is shallow, at a depth of only 5-12 metres, but can A number of USC shipyards are taking part in
turn into thick freshwater ice. the platform’s development, but its final assembly
Gazprom described Kamennomyss- will take place in Kaliningrad.
koye-more as “the first shelf project in the world While Russia is yet to launch offshore gas pro-
to be implemented in such extreme ice and cli- duction in the Arctic, it has been flowing oil on
mate conditions.” the shelf since 2013 at the Gazprom Neft-oper-
The platform Gazprom will use will therefore ated Prirazlomnoye field in the Kara Sea. ™

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