Platform Prirazlomnaya to be put in place next year
The ice-strengthened oil platform Prirazlomnaya will be stationed at the field with the same name in the oil-rich Pechora Sea in June 2011, shipyard Sevmash reports.
According to Mikhail Varakin at Sevmash the platform is about 80 percent ready, RosBiznesConsulting reports. This autumn concrete covering of the platform starts. After that, the platform will have to stay outside Murmansk during the winter, until weather conditions make it possible to bring the platform to the field.
Drilling is planned to start two months after the platform has been put in place.
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Gazprom Deputy Aleksandr Ananenkov stressed during a visit to Sevmash in February that both the Prorazlomnaya platform and the Arkticheskaya jack-up rig, which is under construction at the Zavezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk, must be ready in 2010, as BarentsObserver reported. The two oil and gas installations have become long-dragged construction projects, both long overdue their original time schedules.
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The Prirazlomnoye oil field is located on the shelf in the South-Eastern part of the Barents Sea. The recoverable resources are estimated to 83.2 million tons. Planned production on the field is 6.5 million tons per year. Prirazlomnoye is being developed by Gazprom’s daughter company Sevmorneftegaz.
