Gazprom’s General Contractor for the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye Field Announced the Maintenance of the Work Schedule
The departure of foreign contractors made certain adjustments to the company’s work, noted Mikhail Filinkov, director of the department for implementation of offshore projects at Rusgazshelf.
The Rusgazshelf company (Gazprom’s general contractor for the development of offshore fields, which is implementing projects for the development of the Kirinskoye and Yuzhno-Kirinskoye fields on the Sakhalin shelf) maintains the work schedule for both fields, despite the departure of foreign contractors. This was announced by the director of the department for the implementation of offshore projects of Rusgazshelf, Mikhail Filinkov, during a speech at the Oil and Gas of Sakhalin forum.
“We are on schedule for both Kirinskoye and Yuzhno-Kirinskoye, so Rusgazshelf, as an EPC contractor, will provide equipment supply, arrangement of the offshore technological complex and commissioning,” he said.
At the same time, Nina Erofeeva, head of the department of oil and gas geology, groundwater and structures of Rosnedr, during her speech at the forum, noted that “at Yuzhno-Kirinskoye, production is now planned according to project documents no earlier than the end of 2026.”
The departure of foreign contractors made certain adjustments to the company’s work, Filinkov noted. “In February 2022, a contract strategy was already formed, a work schedule was approved, estimates and negotiations were carried out with contractors. Back in March 2022, all of our foreign contractors confirmed their participation and interest in working on the project, but in April and May we began to receive refusals one after another,” he said.
There is also a lot of work to be done to replace the foreign dredging and stone-laying fleet, the Rusgazshelf representative emphasized. The share of the construction and installation fleet under the Russian flag in the project in 2022 was forced to be 100%, but in 2023 about 30% of such vessels will be foreign. The share of the Russian auxiliary fleet in 2023 is 76%.
Filinkov also noted the role of the Russian pipe-laying vessel Akademik Chersky in the development of fields on the Sakhalin shelf. “After the completion of the construction of Nord Stream 2, the ship made the transition. Here it must be said that this was a very correct decision, because our transition was in January 2022, we did not yet know what situation we would have to face. We planned to use it on some jobs as a crane installation vessel, but then he carried out a wider range of work,” he said.
The Yuzhno-Kirinskoye field was discovered in 2010; its recoverable reserves in the C1+C2 category amount to 814.5 billion cubic meters. m of gas, 130 million tons of gas condensate and 3.8 million tons of oil. The planned design capacity of the field is 21 billion cubic meters. m of gas per year.
About the forum
The international energy forum “Oil and Gas of Sakhalin – 2023” opened on Wednesday in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. For three days, until September 29 inclusive, there will be round tables, one-on-one meetings with project operators, debates, panel discussions and the signing of strategic agreements with the government of the Sakhalin region, as well as an exhibition of hydrocarbon production, transportation and processing enterprises. More than 1 thousand experts will take part in the event. In addition to Russian guests, business delegations from China, Vietnam and India are expected.
This year the forum will celebrate its 27th anniversary. For the first nine years it was held in London with the aim of attracting investments and partners in oil and gas projects in the Sakhalin region, then in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
