Project Profile
Value: US$1,000 million
Location: Kirin block
Start-up Year: 2012
Production: 0.6 bcm of gas and 2,500 bpd of gas condensate in 2015
Upstream Gas Reserves: 4,238 billion ft³
Water Depth: 90m
The Sakhalin Island shelf is best prepared for gas production and supply to consumers in Russia’s Far East. The Sakhalin III project will become one of the basic sources of gas supply. Gazprom holds licenses for three blocks within the project: Kirinsky, Ayashsky and Vostochno-Odoptinsky (licenses granted in 2009 pursuant to the Russian Federation Government Directive), and for the Kirinskoye gas and condensate field (license granted in 2008 pursuant to the Russian Federation Government Directive). Gas reserves and resources of the Sakhalin III project are estimated at some 1.4 trillion cubic meters. The bulk of them are concentrated in the Kirinsky block.
In order to arrange gas production in the Sakhalin III project blocks, Gazprom is planning to perform over 3 thousand square kilometers of 3D seismic work by 2020 and construct some 20 exploration wells. The reserves are forecast to grow by some 600 million tons of fuel equivalent, including approximately 500 billion cubic meters of gas. The Sakhalin III project gas will become the key resource base for the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system. The Kirinskoye gas and condensate field (GCF) is a top development priority in the Kirinsky block.
Kirinskoye field:
The Kirinskoye GCF is located 28 kilometres off the Sakhalin Island shore in the Sea of Okhotsk (sea depth – 90 metres). The field was discovered in 1992. The ABC1+C2 reserves of the Kirinskoye GCF amount to 100 billion cubic metres of gas and 11.4 million tons of gas condensate. The Kirinskoye field is Gazprom’s top development priority offshore Sakhalin. Gas will be produced from the field by Russia’s first subsea production complex. Gazprom is pre-developing the field at the moment. It will be put into operation in 2014.
Project development
Having performed geological exploration and exploratory drilling, Gazprom discovered a new field within the Kirinsky block in September 2010. Between 2010 and 2013 it is planned to perform follow-up exploration and estimate the field reserves
Operators:
Gazprom
Gazprom Neft Shelf
Contractors:
Bennex: Subsea distribution systems
FMC Technologies: Subsea equipment
Gazflot: Drilling contractor
Pipe Metallurgical Company: Seamless line pipe
Stroygazconsulting: Building facilities onshore
Saipem: Subsea development contract
LQT Industries, LLC: Built and commissioned a subarctic aluminum accommodation facility for a drilling platform off the coast of Sakhalin Island, Russia. The facility consists of ten aluminum modular units made up of living quarters, recreation rooms, and utility rooms to accommodate ninety-six personnel on a drilling platform. The construction of the facility was performed at LQT’s facility in Abbeville, LA.
Grenland Group: Manifold and two protection structures for FMC