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

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.
May 20, 2020

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

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