Rosneft assessing ice conditions near offshore northeast Sakhalin oil and gas fields

Offshore staff

MOSCOW – A team from RN-SakhalinNIPImorneft LLC (part of the Rosneft Research and Development complex) have been monitoring ice in Aniva Bay and around the northeast shelf of Sakhalin Island, eastern Russia.

During a recent expedition, they compiled data on the spatial and temporal variability of the island shelf’s ice cover.

In addition, working from a reinforced ice-class supply vessel they performed ice and meteorological observations, photo and video shoots of the ice cover with a quadrocopter, and analysis of images received from the Terra / MODIS, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 satellites.

Results will supplement a data archive on the state of the ice cover and the ice conditions in the waters of the Kaygansko-Vasyukanskoye--Sea, and should improve the methodology for managing the ice situation for Rosneft’s offshore projects in the region.

The Kaygansko-Vasyukanskoye--Sea field, in the Sea of Okhotsk, 60 km (37 mi) off the northeast coast of Sakhalin Island, is a multi-dome structure. In total there have been seven oil and gas discoveries in the area.

05/20/2020