Yamal - Full Steam Ahead, according to Gazprom
(Pic - Barents Observer) Gazprom’s plans for 2008 place the development of Yamal at the top of their agenda, according to their recent press release. The region is also home to the largest area of reindeer husbandry in the world. From the press release…
The major gas production projects are as follows: constructing infrastructure for the Bovanenkovskoye and Kharasaveyskoye fields, Kharvutinskaya area of the Yamburgskoye field, Novoportovskoye, Yen-Yakhinskoye, Urengoyskoye, Zapolyarnoye and other fields.
The major gas transmission projects are: constructing the gas main system Bovanenkovo-Ukhta, Gryazovets-Vyborg and Pochinki-Gryazovets gas pipelines, the SRTO-Torzhok gas main, branch pipeline to the towns of Arkhangelsk and Sverdlovsk as well as expansion of the Urengoi gas transportation route.
Capital investments will also be channeled to reconstruct primary gas production facilities, technically reequip underground gas storage facilities, carry out engineering & design and geological exploration and conduct production drilling in fields.
Indeed, the huge Bovanenkovskoe field in the Yamal peninsula will be completed by May 2011, ahead of schedule. according to Aleksandr Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee, in Nadym this week as reported in Barents Observer and OIL.RU. A total of 11 gas fields and 15 condensate fields, with as much as 10,4 trillion cubic meters of gas reserves, 228,3 million tons of condensate and 291,8 million tons of oil have been opened in Yamal. Together with the Kharasaveyskoe and Novoportskoe fields, the Bovanenkovskoe field contains an estimated 5,9 trillion cubic meters of gas, 100,2 million tons of condensate and 227 million tons of oil. He went on to say,
This is the resource base, on which the development of the Russian gas industry will lean in the 21st century
