Rosneft Increases Gas Production at the Suzunskoye Field
RN-Vankor (part of Rosneft) has started natural gas production at the new well pad at the Suzunskoye field as part of the Vostok Oil project. The daily production volume is about 1.8 million m3 of gas. The produced gas, after the necessary preparation, is sent via an inter-field gas pipeline with a length of 79 km to the Vankor production site.
As part of the implementation of the gas program at the Suzunsky production site, the construction of a gas treatment unit with a compressor station for associated petroleum gas (APG) with a capacity of 2.1 billion m3 per year continues. The unit will prepare a mixture of natural and associated petroleum gas coming from wells, as well as from an oil treatment unit, to commercial quality. All this will make it possible to achieve 100% APG utilization at the Suzunskoye field by the end of 2023.
To date, more than 46 billion m3 of marketable gas has been sent from the fields of the Vankor cluster through the Unified Gas Supply System of the country to consumers.
The Vostok Oil project provides for 100% use of APG already at the design stage. The raw materials will be mainly used to generate electricity at Vostok Oil gas turbine power plants with a total capacity of 3.5 GW. Full utilization of associated petroleum gas will provide the project with a 75% lower carbon footprint than other major new oil projects in the world.
