Prirazlomnaya platform needs 1500 workers
1500 workers and engineers will be needed to complete the construction of the ice-protected platform Prirazlomnaya in Murmansk.
The 117 000 tons heavy platform was towed from the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk to Murmansk in the end of November. It is now moored outside ship repair yard number 35, where it will be supplied with concrete ballasting and made ready for work in the Arctic, MB News reports.
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Some 1500 workers and engineers from ship repair yard number 35, Sevmash and Zvezdochka will be involved in the work, which is planned to be finished in 2011.
The platform has been under construction at the Sevmash yard for 15 years and is designed to operate on Russia’s first offshore hydrocarbon field in the Arctic, the Prirazlomnoye oil field which is located in the eastern part of the Pechora Sea about 60 km north of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
The Prirazlomnaya platform will be operated by a crew of about 200 men working on two-week shifts. The field holds resources of up to 41 million tons and annual peak production is believed to amount to about six million tons. A total of 36 wells will be drilled on site by year 2019.
The platform has a length and width of 126 meters, oil storage capacity of 136,000 cubic meters and a daily production capacity of 19,000 cubic meters. The topside of the platform is based on the “Hutton” platform, an installation previously operating in the North Sea and acquired by former license holder Sevmorneftegaz in 2002.
