Green light for Prirazlomnaya
The Russian Nature Control Authority (Rosprirodnadzor) has approved the conclusions in a status evaluation of the Prirazlomnaya platform, currently under construction in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast. The platform is built for the Prirazlomnoe oil field in the Pechora Sea
When opened for production presumably in 2010, the Prirazlomnoe field will be the first offshore hydrocarbon field in operation in the Russian North. Gazprom will this year invest 10 billion RUB in the Prirazlomnaya platform, Murmanchanin.ru reports. The Prirazlomoe oil field is located in the Pechora Sea, 60 km north of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Water depths in the area is 20 meters. Estimated oil reserves in the field is 82 million tons.
