2,000 km of Winter Roads Were Built to Supply Vostok Oil facilities
RN-Vankor (part of Rosneft’s oil and gas production complex) has built record-breaking winter roads for the Vostok Oil project. 2000 km of winter roads pass through the territory of the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. They connect the facilities of the RN-Vankor oil transportation system and the Korotchaevo production base with the fields of the Vankor and Payakh clusters.
For the first time, seasonal motor roads run along the route of the Vostok Oil main oil pipeline under construction – from the Payakhskoye field to the oil loading terminal in Sever Bay, the construction of which began the previous year. In addition, for the first time, a winter road was built from the Bay of the North to the port of Dikson. The total length of new seasonal roads in Taimyr was more than 400 kilometers.
Winter roads were the first to start their work on the territory of the Vankor cluster. These are traditional routes between the Vankor, Tagul and Suzun deposits, as well as between the city of Dudinka and the production bases of the project – Tochino, Tanalau, Karaul, Lopatka.
556 units of specialized equipment and more than 1,000 workers were involved in the construction of winter roads. More than 2,000 heavy vehicles and other specialized equipment will be involved in the delivery of goods for Vostok Oil facilities on winter roads this year. They have to transport more than 500 thousand tons of various cargoes from the production bases Tochino, Tanalau, Karaul, Priluki, Bay Sever, where they entered the river navigation on the Yenisei and along the Northern Sea Route.
Traditionally, all winter roads built by oilmen perform an important social function – they are used by local residents and the indigenous population of the tundra to supply the polar territories.
The opening of winter roads will make it possible to timely provide Vostok Oil facilities with cargo for the construction of priority oil transportation system facilities, berths and an oil terminal in Sever Bay, generation and development drilling facilities, and social infrastructure.
