Yamal gas extracted from the sea
Head of the Russian Institute of Energy Strategy, Valerii Bushev, says the gas reserves of the Yamal Peninsula should be extracted from offshore installations.
Research director Bushev maintains that traditional production methods with development of roads, pipelines and electricity lines are not suited for the Yamal Peninsula. Mr. Bushev believes that the resource-rich peninsula should rather be developed from the sea.
He says that several of the huge fields in the peninsula, among them the Bovanenkovskoe and Khasaveyskoe fields, are located close to the Kara Sea and that this opens up for an offshore approach to the area.
In an interview with information agency Ruskompress, Mr. Bushev says that a land-based development of the fields will be more costly and that it might negatively influence environment in the area.
The Russian Institute of Energy Strategy is a research body under the Ministry of Industry and Energy.
Gazprom, however, insists that only land-based solutions and the construction of railways will do in the far-northern peninsula. Company representatives say that as much as 80 million tons of equipment and construction materials will be needed in connection with the development of three fields in the area, the Bovanenkovskoe, Novoportskoe and Khasaveyskoe fields.
You can read more about the Yamal Peninsula in BarentsObserver’s Yamal section
