Lukoil has launched the jacket of the living quarters platform for the Valery Grayfer field from the yard to the Caspian Sea.
(Courtesy Lukoil)
The jacket of the living quarters platform for the Valery Grayfer field.
Offshore staff
MOSCOW – Lukoil has launched the jacket of the living quarters platform for the Valery Grayfer field from the yard to the Caspian Sea.
Topsides installation is scheduled for 2021. The living quarters platform is designed to accommodate 155 people and is expected to weigh 6,000 tons.
The Valery Grayfer (ex-Rakushechnoye) field is 160 km (99.4 mi) from the port of Astrakhan and 100 km (62 mi) from the western coast. Production is planned to start in 2022 at the design rate of 1.2 MM metric tons (1.32 MM tons) per year.
In addition, the company said accumulated production from the V. Filanovsky and Yury Korchagin fields in the Caspian Sea is approaching to 30 MM metric tons (33 MM tons).
The V. Filanovsky field involves three phases of facilities, including a wellhead platform with minimal personnel involvement.
The drilling of single-bore horizontal gas injection well #102 has been completed on the ice-resistant fixed platform.
Drilling is in progress on Phase 2 facilities of the Yury Korchagin field to unlock reserves in the eastern part of the field as well as additional drilling on Phase 1 facilities of the project.
