Rosneft head Igor Sechin has offered Vladimir Putin with a souvenir from the state oil giant’s newest Arctic drilling project: A little bottle of the oil itself.
The oil drawn out from the Zapadno-Irkinsky area includes only 0.02 % of sulphur, Sechin said as he handed the container to Putin during their meeting Tuesday. It is the initial oil removed from the website, Sechin described.” This is premium-quality oil, among the very best in the world, the very best on the planet,” he stressed.
Vostok Oil
The growth of the Zapadno-Irkinsky area becomes part of Rosneft’s grand brand-new Arctic job Vostok Oil. If the firm gets its way, this will be one of the most significant energy tasks in the Arctic ever before.
Sechin revealed the president a demo movie of the job that will consist of the building and construction of about 2,000 kilometers of new long distance pipes as well as 7,000 kilometers of local branch pipelines. The job’s construction will certainly include 3 brand-new flight terminals, 10 airports as well as about 50 brand-new ice-class tankers, Interfax reported.
The Vostok Oil project also consists of the building of a major brand-new port and incurable on the coast of the Kara Sea. The Sever terminal will certainly be found on the western coast of the Taimyr Peninsula, not far from the community of Dikson. It will certainly be built to take care of all deliveries from the job, eventually up to 115 million lots of oil each year by 2030.
The Sever terminal is expected to be up and also running by 2024. It will certainly be instrumental in boosting deliveries on the Northern Sea Route to greater than 80 million bunches, the grand target set by President Putin in his so-called May Decrees.
According to Sechin, Vostok Oil has a source potential of approximately 5 billion tons of light-quality oil. Currently in 2024, approximately 25 million loads are to be drawn out. Three years later, in 2027, manufacturing will total up to 50 million heaps as well as in 2030– as high as 115 million.
Resources are based on 15 areas in the Taimyr region, including wells in the Vankor location. In the quotes are additionally the sources of the Payakha areas, as well as the East Taimyr collection where Rosneft cooperates with BP.
Boring in Kara Sea
Rosneft is not just actively involved in the Taimyr Peninsula however currently additionally drills in the Kara Sea, Sechin told Putin in this week’s meeting.
In addition to the container of oil from Taimyr, the Rosneft leader offered the president a stack of books, consisting of one titled “Drilling in the Kara Sea.”
Offshore expedition is certainly happening, Sechin stated. According to the Rosneft leader, 2 rigs are presently piercing in the waters off the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
Well drilling at the Vikulovskaya and also Ragozinskaya began on July 22 and is executed by 2 rigs that have been towed to the site from Murmansk.
The wells are located in the Vostochno-Prinovozemelsky 1-2 certificate areas, near the drillsite where Rosneft in 2014 made a major exploration in partnership with ExxonMobil.
According to Sechin, the area’s superficial waters as well as drifting icebergs have actually complicated procedures and also the company decided to drill a two-meter-wide, 15-meter-deep shaft to assist in exploration.
It is the first time ever in Russia that such a treatment has been made in offshore boring, he told Putin. Both rigs described by Sechin are likely to be the very same that this summer drill 2 wells in the Kara Sea for Gazprom.
Drilling souvenirs This is not the very first time that Sechin has given the head of state a souvenir from his Arctic operations. In 2017, the Rosneft leader handed Putin a drillcore from the Tsentralny-Olginskaya well in the Laptev Sea.
According to Sechin, preliminarily technological studies suggested that the field holds geological gets of up to 9.5 billion heaps. “This will really be a special oil field,” Rosneft leader Igor Sechin underlined. Since then, nevertheless, little has actually been said regarding growths on website.
Neither is it the very first time Putin as well as Sechin have gone over the Vostok Oil task. The two also raised the topic during their meetings February and also May this year.