- Home page /
- News /
- Company news /
- Gazprom Neft expands production in the Arctic
Gazprom Neft expands production in the Arctic
Courtesy of gazprom-neft.com |
Gazprom Neft’s Arctic assets were responsible for a significant contribution to the company’s total production growth in 2019, with about 30% of all oil production occurring within the Arctic Circle. Liquid hydrocarbon production was up 8% at the Novoportovskoye field, reaching 7.7 million tonnes — the result of new digital and industrial technologies, together with the commissioning of new wells. 2020 is expected to see production volumes reach eight million tonnes of oil per year at the Novy Port project — the driver behind this growth being the development of the northern part of the field, the potential of which has already been confirmed through pilot works.
A further area for development at the Novoportovskoye field concerns the development of major gas infrastructure. Expanding current gas treatment facilities to establish a full-scale
One of the most promising tasks in developing this asset in 2020 will be bringing low-capacity strata and Vostochno-Messoyakhskoye-field edge-zone reserves under development. In addition to this, a
Production volumes at the Prirazlomnoye field remained stable throughout 2019, at 3.14 tonnes of oil. More than 12 million tonnes of ARCO (Arctic) oil have now been produced over the six years in which the Prirazlomnoye platform has been in continuous operation in the Barents Sea, and 19 wells drilled. Three further wells will be built and commissioned at Russia’s first ever project on the Russian Arctic Shelf in 2020.
Source: gazprom-neft.com