Governor of Ugra Natalya Komarova and Founder of INK Marina Sedykh Discussed Issues of Sustainable Development
Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Natalya Komarova and General Director of INK-Capital (a holding structure of Irkutsk Oil Company LLC), founder of the company, member of the Board of Directors Marina Sedykh took part in a working meeting that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk. The parties discussed issues of sustainable development in the field of carbon neutrality, the possibility of using the successful practices of the region.
“Currently, the oil industry is faced with the task of advanced implementation of digital solutions, the search for domestic technologies for the development of hard-to-recover hydrocarbon deposits, the large-scale application of modern methods of maintaining and increasing oil recovery, reducing the carbon footprint,” Natalya Komarova emphasized.
On the territory of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, with the support of the Ministry of Energy of Russia, the federal project “Technologies for the Development of Hard-to-Recover Hydrocarbons” is being implemented. Within the framework of the project, a core study center was created, which provides services for its study to all oil companies in the country. In addition, since 2009, a “carbon polygon” has been operating in the district on the basis of the Mukhrino field station of the Ugra State University, where carbon absorption by ecosystems is monitored. This makes it possible to work out technologies aimed at creating the most accurate methodology for accounting for emissions and absorption of greenhouse gases, reducing their emissions, and will also help to verify the results of such an assessment.
Also, work is underway to create an international center for the assessment and verification of carbon units, the conditions for the entry of economic entities of the region into the system of trading in quotas for greenhouse gas emissions.
“In carbon footprint projects, not enough attention is paid to the CO2 sequestration potential of natural ecosystems such as wetlands. On the one hand, technologies that reduce gas production should be applied here. On the other hand, to use the potential of natural ecosystems capable of absorbing CO2, to reduce the negative impact, ”added the head of the region.
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug is one of the largest oil and gas provinces in Russia. Today the Irkutsk Oil Company faces the issue of sustainable development. “That is why the company turned to the territories where it has accumulated significant experience in this direction, and in particular to the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Sustainable development issues cannot be addressed in one particular company or one particular region. They are solved by joint efforts, with joint work, ”said Marina Sedykh.
The founder of the company also noted that the Irkutsk Oil Company was the first to develop the East Siberian oil and gas province. In addition to the Irkutsk region, activities are carried out on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The company pays great attention to environmental issues, labor safety. Practices, competencies, developed in Ugra, are of significant interest for INC.
The head of Ugra, in turn, emphasized that the implementation of projects aimed at increasing the economy of resources, movement towards sustainable development require combining efforts of business, government, science, close exchange of experience between companies and regions. The meeting resulted in the parties’ willingness to cooperate in the field of “green” transformation of the country’s oil and gas industry and exchange best practices.
The delegation of the Irkutsk Oil Company also visited the production control center of Gazpromneft-Khantos LLC and the core storage of the Shpilman Scientific Analytical Center for Rational Subsoil Use.
LLC Irkutsk Oil Company (INK) is one of the largest independent producers of hydrocarbons in Russia. The company was founded in 2000 and conducts geological studies, exploration and development of 52 subsoil plots in the Irkutsk Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The main beneficiaries are Nikolay Buinov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of INK, and Marina Sedykh, a member of the Board of Directors. INK’s largest investment project is a gas chemical cluster, which includes facilities for the extraction, treatment, transportation and processing of gas, 2 helium plants and the Irkutsk Polymer Plant. The total number of employees is more than 10 thousand people.
