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Gazprom Neft asks for more

fields on Yamal

RUSSIA GAZPROM Neft has requested state auctions the created oil and gas infrastructure.” He esti-
on special terms for three oil and gas fields on mated that the fields could be brought on stream
Gazprom Neft wants the Yamal Peninsula, Kommersant reported on before the end of the decade.
more gas to fill a December 9. Gazprom Neft began full-scale oil devel-
pipeline in the Arctic. The company’s CEO Alexander Dyukov opment at Novoportovskoye in 2016 with the
made the request to Russian President Vladimir launch of the Arctic Gate sea terminal, which
Putin, the newspaper said. He reasoned that the can deliver up to 170,000 barrels per day of the
development of the fields - Nurminskoye, Ros- field’s gas to international markets. In October it
tovtsevskoye and Sredneyamalskoye - would also completed a 20bn cubic metre per year pipe-
help fill the capacity of a pipeline that Gazprom line to send the field’s gas south, where it can be
Neft has recently built to handle associated gas funnelled into the national gas transport system.
produced at the Novoportovskoye oilfield on Gazprom Neft expects to ramp up supplies
Yamal. via the pipeline to 20mn cubic metres per day
The issue is that the fields were previously (7.3 bcm per year), after commissioning it in a
ring-fenced to form part of Russia’s strategic ceremony on December 8. The potential for gas
reserve of oil and gas resources, not to be devel- production at Novoportovskoye is up to 9 bcm
oped until years to come. But Dyukov said the per year, according to Kommersant. So Gazprom
company needs to expand its resource base on Neft is banking on alternative sources of supply
Yamal “to guarantee the long-term utilisation of to raise the pipeline to its full capacity .™

Rosneft discovers new

oilfield in East Siberia

RUSSIA RUSSIA’S Rosneft has announced the discovery of site forms part of the Yurubcheno-Tokhomskaya
a new oilfield in the Krasnoyarsk region of Eastern sub-basin.
The discovery was in Siberia, estimating the size of the find at over 10mn Rosneft is already priming the field for devel-
the Krasnoyarsk region. tonnes (73.3mn barrels) in B1+B2 reserves. opment. In the next three years, the company
Rosneft’s Slavneft-Krasnoyarskneftegaz unit plans to create five well pads at the site.
made the find at the Northeast licence area at the Rosneft is intensifying its exploration work in
Tersko-Kamovsky block, Rosneft said in a state- Russia’s eastern zones. In September last year it
ment on December 9. The company achieved an discovered 9.5mn barrels of oil and 1.2bn cubic
oil flow of 16.5mn cubic metres per day from the metres of gas near the Srednetuobinskoye field. It
Madrinskaya 1-1 reservoir. went on to make a 75-bcm gas discovery in Janu-
Rosneft said that the discovery improved the ary in Yakutia, followed by a second, 40-bcm find
development prospects of the entire area. The in the Far Eastern region in July. ™

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