The Prirazlomnoye field is the first — and, thus far, the only — project at which oil is being produced on the Russian Arctic Shelf. Commercial development of this field has seen 18 wells drilled, with construction of the 19th due for completion in the immediate future.

Safe year-round oil shipments from the Prirazlomnoye field, and effective logistical project support in the freezing Barents Sea, are ensured through the ice management system the company has in place here — a further key element of which will be the Ice Situation Management Centre currently being put in place. Using specially developed software, this centre will receive and analyse data generated from regional and local monitoring of hydro-meteorological and ice conditions. The use of self-learning mathematical models will facilitate the development of more accurate weather forecasts of weather shipping opportunities (“shipping windows”) and make it possible to identify potentially dangerous ice formations at an early stage. All information received and processed, together with online expert recommendations, will be available to captains responsible for managing the platform, tankers and support-vessels.