Project Profile
Value: US$15,000 million
Location: Barents Sea
Reserves: 3.8 trillion cubic meters of gas and 53.3 million tonnes of gas condensate
Water Depth: 320-340 m
Discovery Year: 1988
Start-up Year: 2028
The Shtokman gas and condensate field development project is of strategic significance for Gazprom. The project implementation will become a pivotal point to form a new gas producing region on the Russian Arctic shelf.
The Shtokman field will become a resource base for building up Russian pipeline gas and LNG supplies to the domestic and foreign markets.
Discovered in 1988, the Shtokman gas and condensate field is located in the central part of the Russian sector of the Barents Sea shelf, about 600 km northeast of Murmansk, where sea depth varies between 320 and 340 metres.
C1 reserves of the field make up 3.9 trillion cubic metres of gas and 56 million tons of gas condensate, with 3.8 trillion cubic meters of gas and 53.4 million tons of gas condensate located within Gazprom’s licensed area.
The Shtokman field development is divided into three phases. Phase 1 and Phase 2 facilities commissioning will allow for respective annual production of 23.7 and 47.4 billion cubic meters of gas. The field will reach its design capacity of 71.1 billion cubic metres of gas a year through implementing Phase 3. This volume is comparable to the annual gas output of Norway, one of the major European gas exporters.
Gas production buildup in the field is envisaged following the results of the first two phases implementation, provided that the target market environment is favorable and the gas demand is at the appropriate level.
Field operations will be performed using deepwater production systems and special FPSO/FPU platforms equipped with quick-disconnect system and able to swiftly move off the icebergs.
Produced gas will be conveyed via the offshore trunklines to the coast near the Teriberka settlement where an LNG plant (first production train capacity – 7.5 million tons a year), a port transportation and technological complex and other production facilities will be located.
Operators:
Shtokman Development AG, which is a joint company comprising:
Gazprom: 76%
Statoil: 24% (exit in 2015)
Contractors:
Giprospetsgaz: Project designer
Consortium for FEED for floating production unit:
Aker Solutions
Technip
SBM (Single Buoy Moorings)
Consortium for FEED for floating production unit:
Saipem
Samsung Heavy Industries
Consortium for FEED for subsea pipelines:
J P Kenny
Giprospetsgaz
Doris Engineering: Subsea FEED contract
MW Kellogg Ltd (MWKL): Feasibility study
Eurocopter: Helicopters
Vyborg Shipyard: EPC to build drilling platforms
Sevmash: EPC for drilling platforms
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works
Severstal: Steel for drilling rigs
DOF Subsea: Geotechnical survey
Ruukki: Steel for drilling rigs
Power Machines: Metal sections of the drilling rigs
Converteam Group SAS: Power optimisation for two semi-subs
National Oilwell Varco: Drilling equipment
Fugro: Test drilling
Rubin Central Design Bureau: Design offshore platform to provide logistical services
CB&I Lummus: Develop the port\'s design
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping: Evaluation of marine infrastructure
WorleyParsons: FEED for Phase 2 and 3
Sub Contractors:
Samsung Heavy Industries: EPC for drilling rig topsides for Vyborg
Dockwise: Transport topsides for Vyborg