At the Novoportovskoye field, Gazprom Neft launched the Arctic Gates of the Arctic oil loading terminal, installed in the waters of the Gulf of Ob. This is a unique technical facility designed to operate in extreme natural and climatic conditions: the temperature in the region drops below -50 degrees Celsius, the ice thickness can exceed 2 m. 3.5 km from the coast, it enters through an oil pipeline with a length of more than 100 km. The terminal's oil transshipment capacity is up to 8.5 million tons per year.

"Alexander Sannikov" is one of two icebreaking vessels servicing the terminal at Novoportovskoye, which are being built by order of Gazprom Neft at the Vyborg Shipyard

The facility is equipped with a two-level emergency protection system and meets the most stringent requirements in the field of industrial safety and security environment. A special system allows you to instantly undock the terminal and the tanker, while maintaining the tightness of the disconnected elements. The "zero discharge" technology excludes the ingress of any foreign substances into the waters of the Gulf of Ob. The subsea pipeline connecting the terminal to the offshore tank farm is protected by an additional concrete shell.

The command to start loading a tanker with oil from the Novoportovskoye field through the new terminal was given by the president via video link Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The solemn event dedicated to the start of year-round shipment of Yamal oil through the Gates of the Arctic was attended by Alexei Miller, Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, and Alexander Dyukov, General Director of Gazprom Neft.

The development of territories located beyond the Arctic Circle on land and on the shelf is part of the Gazprom Neft strategy until 2025, the joint program "Arctic Time". The flagship projects of the program today are the development of the Prirazlomnoye and Novoportovskoye fields. In the future, its perimeter may include other elements of the Gazprom Neft production cluster, which is being formed in the north of the YaNAO, and new offshore assets.

Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation:

Today we are starting a new stage in the development of Yamal, in fact, a new stage in the development of the Novoportovskoye field. This is a significant, great event, as the project is one of the most capital-intensive in the Russian oil and gas industry. Over the past three years, 186 billion rubles have been allocated for its implementation, and the latest technical solutions have been applied to work in the harsh conditions of the northernmost point of the Yamal Peninsula. For the first time, oil will be shipped not by pipeline, but by sea. I would like to congratulate and thank the management of Gazprom and Gazprom Neft, as well as the engineers and workers who took part in the implementation of this project. This is a very good step forward!

Alexander Dyukov, General Director of Gazprom Neft:

The Novoportovskoye field was discovered more than 50 years ago and became the first hydrocarbon field discovered on the Yamal Peninsula. For a long time the lack of technologies for the development of such complex fields as Novoportovskoye, the lack of the possibility of exporting and transporting oil did not allow starting the development of the asset. Application of new modern technologies XXI century allowed to start the development of this field.

We continue to build high-tech horizontal wells at the field. We are expanding and developing ground infrastructure. A powerful power plant is under construction. At the Vyborg Shipyard, we started building new, modern, powerful icebreakers for Novy Port. The start of full-scale development of the asset opens up a new production region for Gazprom Neft and brings the company significantly closer to its strategic goal of 100 mmtoe. by 2020.

The command to start loading the tanker with oil from the Novoportovskoye field through the new terminal was given via video link
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Arctic terminal

Oil transportation scheme

8.5 million tons per year capacity of the Gates of the Arctic terminal for oil transshipment

Vadim Yakovlev, First Deputy General Director of Gazprom Neft:

The construction of the Arctic terminal at the Novoportovskoye field is a complex project implemented in extreme climatic conditions. However, the commissioning of the Gates of the Arctic is a valuable event not only in terms of demonstrating the technological capabilities of Gazprom Neft. This is a major milestone in Novoportovskoye's road to full capacity, a journey the company has traveled virtually from zero to the discovery of a new Russian oil province in Yamal.

Today I would like to tell you about a very unique facility, the world's only oil export terminal located beyond the Arctic Circle, and even in fresh waters. We are talking about the Gates of the Arctic. Imagine, this gigantic technical structure with a height of more than 80 meters is designed to operate in very extreme natural and climatic conditions: the temperature in the region drops below -50 degrees, and the ice thickness can exceed 2 meters. The project itself is an essential element for the growth of cargo transportation along the Northern Sea Route, as well as for the further development and development of Arctic offshore fields.

2. And we fly again, in these parts a helicopter, like a minibus. Another 30 minutes of flight (from the New Port), and we are there.

3. Geographically, the village of Mys-Kamenny is located in the west of the Ob Bay of the Yamal Peninsula, along the Kamennaya Spit. It was founded as the base of the Polar Geophysical Expedition.

5. As for this name of the village, there are several versions. The main one says that at one time the translation from the Nenets language was simply incorrect, and as a result, instead of “Crooked Cape” (“Pey-salya”), we have “Cape Stone” (“Pe-salya”)

Having believed in themselves that there is a lot of oil at the Novoportovskoye field and it is economically profitable to extract it, they began to think about how to take it out of here. Connected scientists from the Krylov State scientific center shipbuilding and marine engineering. It was important to come up with a way that all twelve months of the year the tankers were on the move, the help of nuclear icebreakers was allowed.

Initially, 12 options were considered for transporting oil from the Novoportovskoye field to consumers. Last time I already wrote, when I was talking about the field itself, that the nearest main oil pipeline is located 740 km from the New Port and it is not economically feasible to pull a pipe to it, besides, it is somehow a pity to give such valuable oil to a common hodgepodge, in the same place it mixes in the pipe and what happens at the exit is a big question. Another option involved the construction of a main oil pipeline to the Payut railway station with a length of about 200 km, from where oil would be delivered to consumers by rail. In this case, Novoportovskaya oil would go to the domestic market, and not to Europe, which also promised lower revenues. And the capacity of the railway infrastructure is also not unlimited. Therefore, it was decided to work on projects of transportation by sea. Let me remind you that oil is delivered from the field to the coast through a pressure oil pipeline with a length of more than 100 km.

Now all the necessary infrastructure has been built on the coast of the Gulf of Ob: underwater and onshore oil pipelines, a tank farm, pumping stations with a water hammer protection system that guarantees the tightness of the pipeline.

Experimental pilotage was carried out in 2011 from the port of Sabetta using the Vaigach nuclear icebreaker. The first Novy Port oil was sent to Europe via the Northern Sea Route in the summer of 2014, and in 2015 winter shipments began. Why exactly in Northern Europe, this is explained by the fact that, firstly, from a geographical point of view, it is the closest to the field, plus there are refineries specializing in the processing of light sweet oil, i.e., bull's-eye, Novy Port, just such blood.

In order for such an ambitious project to fly, it was even decided to create our own fleet, both tankers and new icebreakers of the Arctic class. These ships should easily overcome ice up to 1.8 m thick, and take on board about 35 thousand tons of cargo. And at the same time, they are equipped with bow loading devices for loading raw materials from the tower terminal. In the autumn of 2016, the first such tanker, Shturman Albanov, was launched, and by the end of 2017, the number of new generation tankers operating on the Novy Port project will reach six.

Initially, until May 2016, oil was loaded onto tankers from shore using temporary hose lines. It was not possible to build an oil loading terminal on the shore, it is shallow here, and even the current. Therefore, it was decided to place it 3.5 km. from the shore. To maintain the desired temperature of the raw material, it was designed in the form of two insulated pipelines, through which heated oil circulates between shipments.

On May 25, 2016, with the participation of Vladimir Putin, the Arctic Gates offshore oil terminal was inaugurated. It was from this date that the company was able to carry out year-round shipment of Novy Port oil to consumers. The capacity of the Gates of the Arctic terminal for oil transshipment is up to 8.5 million tons per year.

And now let me parrot the size. The total height of the Gates of the Arctic FSMLT is 80 m, while it rises 61 m above the sea, and the height of the underwater part is 17 m. The length of the rotary shaft is 78 m, and the length of the boom is 67 m. with the help of one of the world's largest crane ships "Oleg Strashnov" with a carrying capacity of 5 thousand tons. It is in contact with tankers thanks to two oil loading hoses 68 meters long.

19. "Cork" for Novoportovskoye oil:). Everyone wants to snatch some of that cool black gold for themselves.

20. A multifunctional rescue vessel Baltika is on duty near the terminal.

MFASS "Baltika" of the innovative project R-70202 was built at the Baltic shipyard "Yantar" by order federal agency sea ​​and river transport of the Russian Federation under the contract concluded on November 09, 2011. The P-70202 project of an innovative icebreaker for oil spill response and rescue operations was developed by the Finnish company Aker Arctic Technology. The design feature of the vessel is an asymmetric hull equipped with three full-revolving propeller-rudder complexes with a total capacity of 7.5 MW. This allows the ship to go obliquely, laying a channel in the ice, 2.5 times the width of its hull - up to 50 meters with a hull width of 20.5 meters. The vessel is capable of moving through even ice one meter thick, and in the "oblique" mode will be able to lay a channel 50 meters wide. The vessel is designed to perform a wide range of rescue operations both in clean water and in ice conditions, including the elimination of emergency oil spills.

Vessel "Baltika" ("Baltika") IMO: 9649237, flag of Russia, port of registry Big Port of St. Petersburg, was accepted state commission May 30, 2014, building number 508. Owner: Rosmorrechflot, Russia. Operator: FBU "Gosmorspasluzhba Rossii". On December 30, 2014, FBU "Marine Rescue Service of Rosmorrechflot" accepted into operation. The construction cost was 78 million euros. Main characteristics: Tonnage 3800 tons, deadweight 1150 tons. Length 76.4 meters, width 20.5 meters, draft 6.3 meters. Travel speed 14 knots, in flat ice 1 meter thick 3 knots. The power of three diesel generators is 7.5 MW. Crew of 24 people. On board accommodation is provided for 12 people of special personnel. Autonomy 20 days (for 24 people). The icebreaker is equipped with special equipment for oil spill response, fire fighting, and environmental monitoring.

24. Having made several circles over the terminal and the village, we finally landed.

25. Cape-Stone is a closed village, it is quite difficult to get here without an invitation, at the exit from the helicopter we are met by border guards, they check all the formalities and only after that we are invited to visit.

27. Acceptance point "Cape Kamenny" and its operator's room. From here, all processes are monitored. And so the FSMLT "Gate of the Arctic" works completely autonomously, there is a control room in the terminal tower, where the electronics communicate with the operator's PSP. A special system allows you to instantly undock the terminal and the tanker, while maintaining the tightness of the disconnected elements.

28. And this is the Chemical Analytical Laboratory

When designing our project, we took the experience of the oil loading terminal of the Sakhalin-1 project in the village of De-Kastri, Khabarovsk Territory. Of course, there were differences, there is sea ice, and ours is freshwater and denser, and the climate on Cape Kamenny will be more severe. But pundits, after conducting a large number of tests in the ice basins of the Krylov State Research Center and the Hamburg Maritime Institute, nevertheless found the necessary solutions. As a result, an ice cone was laid at the base of the Gates of the Arctic terminal, acting as an icebreaker. In addition, the stability of the terminal is ensured by 12 piles 85 meters long and up to 2.5 meters in diameter. The oil pipeline, which connects the acceptance point (PSP) and the terminal, consists of 2 pipes laid along the bottom of the Gulf of Ob, with a total length of 7.9 km. These pipes are insulated from the shore to the permafrost boundary, the pipe diameter is 720 mm, and the steel thickness is 18 mm. Heated oil (with a temperature of about 45 C) constantly circulates through them.

From the point of view of process safety, everything here is at a very high level, and the “zero discharge” technology excludes the ingress of any unwanted substances into the waters of the Gulf of Ob.

33. It’s a pity that we didn’t manage to visit this ship and take pictures closer, the ice situation didn’t allow us that day, maybe some other time we’ll be lucky ...

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Today in the village of Cape Kamenny (Yamal Peninsula, Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region) a solemn event dedicated to the start of year-round shipment of Yamal oil through the Arctic Gates of the Arctic oil terminal was held. The event was attended by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Alexander Dyukov, General Director of Gazprom Neft.

The command to start loading the tanker with oil from the Novoportovskoye field was given by video link by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

The Novoportovskoye oil and gas condensate field, the largest in terms of oil reserves in Yamal, is located 700 kilometers from the existing pipeline infrastructure. Therefore, it was decided that for the first time in the history of the Russian oil and gas industry, the export of Yamal oil will be carried out by sea.

Usage the latest technologies during the creation of production, transport and, most importantly, shipping infrastructure, it made it possible to organize commercial oil production at the field in just four years. Already in 2018, it is planned to extract 6.3 million tons of raw materials here. The plan for further development of the field will be determined by the end of 2017.

Oil from the Novoportovskoye field is delivered via an oil pipeline with a length of more than 100 km to the coast of the Gulf of Ob. It has a critically shallow navigation fairway depth of 11 meters, in connection with which the oil loading terminal is located directly at sea - 3.5 km from the coast. The terminal's oil transshipment capacity is up to 8.5 million tons per year. It allows year-round shipment of oil produced in Yamal to tankers for further transportation along the Northern Sea Route.

The Gates of the Arctic sea terminal is a unique building. The terminal is designed to operate in extreme natural and climatic conditions: the temperature in the region drops below -50 degrees Celsius, the ice thickness can exceed two meters. It has a two-level protection system and meets the most stringent requirements in the field of industrial safety and environmental protection.

The terminal equipment is fully automated and reliably protected from water hammer. A special system allows you to instantly undock the terminal and the tanker, while maintaining the tightness of the disconnected elements. The "zero discharge" technology prevents any foreign matter from entering the water area of ​​the Gulf of Ob, which is extremely important for preserving the ecology of the Arctic. In addition, the subsea pipeline connecting the terminal to the offshore tank farm is protected by an additional concrete shell.

“Gazprom is consistently developing the Russian Arctic. Oil is being successfully produced at the Prirazlomnoye field, the only hydrocarbon development project on the Russian Arctic shelf. A gas production center that has no analogues in the world is developing at full speed on the Yamal Peninsula. Now here, together with the gas center, we are creating a new oil province. The Gates of the Arctic is open to Yamal oil, which will be supplied to European consumers all year round via the Northern Sea Route,” said Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee.

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The Novoportovskoye oil and gas condensate field is located in the southeastern part of the Yamal Peninsula, 250 km north of the city of Nadym and 30 km from the coast of the Gulf of Ob. The recoverable reserves of C1+C2 category liquid hydrocarbons are more than 250 million tons. The field development operator is Gazprom Neft PJSC.

The Novy Port oil grade belongs to medium density grades and contains less sulfur (about 0.1) than the Urals blend.

The possibility of exporting oil by sea was confirmed in 2011 after pilot escort of a nuclear-powered icebreaker from the port of Sabetta (northeast of the Yamal Peninsula) to Cape Kamenny. First in Russian history the experience of exporting oil from Yamal by tanker by sea was obtained in the summer of 2014.

To date, the volume of investments in the development of the Novoportovskoye field has amounted to 180 billion rubles, the expected tax revenues during the implementation of the project will exceed 1.5 trillion rubles.

During the development of the field, a program is being implemented to increase the population of northern commercial fish. In particular, in 2015 about 4 million muksun fry and other fish species were released into the Ob and the rivers of the Ob-Irtysh basin. In 2016-2018, another 24 million whitefish fry are planned to be released.

PJSC Gazprom Information Department

May 26, 2016 on the Yamal Peninsula (Cape Kamenny village) began year-round shipment of Yamal oil through the Arctic oil terminal "Gate of the Arctic".

The command to start loading the tanker with oil from the Novoportovskoye field was given by video link by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Novoportovskoye oil and gas condensate field is considered the largest in terms of oil reserves in Yamal - it is located 700 kilometers from the existing pipeline infrastructure. Therefore, it was decided that for the first time in the history of the Russian oil and gas industry, the export of Yamal oil will be carried out by sea.

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The latest technologies in the creation of production, transport and offloading infrastructure made it possible to organize commercial oil production at the field in just 4 years. Already in 2018, it is planned to extract about six million tons of “black gold” here.

Oil from the Novoportovskoye field is delivered via an oil pipeline with a length of more than a hundred kilometers to the coast of the Gulf of Ob. It has a critically shallow navigation fairway depth - 11 meters, in connection with which the oil terminal is located directly at sea - 3.5 km from the coast.The terminal's oil transshipment capacity is up to 8.5 million tons per year. It allows year-round shipment of oil produced in Yamal to tankers for further transportation along the Northern Sea Route.

The Gates of the Arctic sea terminal is the only facility in the world in the Arctic. The terminal is designed to work in extreme natural and climatic conditions: the temperature in the region drops below -50ºС, the ice thickness can exceed 2 meters. It has a two-level protection system and meets the most stringent requirements in the field of industrial safety and environmental protection.

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The terminal equipment is fully automated and reliably protected from water hammer. A special system allows you to instantly undock the terminal and the tanker, while maintaining the tightness of the disconnected elements. The "zero discharge" technology excludes the ingress of any foreign substances into the water area of ​​the Gulf of Ob, which is very important for preserving the ecology of the Arctic. In addition, the subsea pipeline connecting the terminal to the offshore tank farm is protected by a concrete shell.

" " is consistently developing the Arctic. Oil is being successfully produced at the Prirazlomnoye field, the only hydrocarbon development project on the Russian Arctic shelf. A gas production center that has no analogues in the world is developing at full speed on the Yamal Peninsula. Now, together with the gas center, a new oil province is being created here.

This project is the most important for increasing cargo transportation along the Northern Sea Route and developing Arctic offshore fields. It brings Russia closer to the task - to increase the volume of cargo along the Northern Sea Route by 2030 to more than 80 million tons, that is, twenty times compared to 2015.

Due to the year-round oil shipment, accompanied by icebreakers, the Yamal-Europe route will become one of the first constantly used sections of the Northern Sea Route. There will already be a certain schedule on this segment, which will make the NSR more convenient and accessible for shippers.

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Oil deliveries via the Northern Sea Route will give Russian oil companies useful experience and impetus to further expand the geography of deliveries along this route, and will allow other companies to be involved in the transportation of various cargoes that are not profitable for shipment by land. And it could also revive the economies of now-depressed coastal cities.

Terminal "Gate of the Arctic" is another important step towards the development of the shelf vector. The fact of organization of year-round operation of a specialized large port located beyond the Arctic Circle confirms once again that Russian interests in the Arctic are backed up by technical capabilities.

In addition to production on the Arctic shelf, another aspect is also important for Russia - the organization of uninterrupted supplies of oil and gas to Europe. The use of oil and gas pipelines is significantly more profitable, since it does not impose additional costs on the development of the transport fleet, liquefaction and regasification of LNG, however, in the current geopolitical conditions, the “pipe” should have an alternative. In this vein, of course, the possibility of organizing deliveries by sea is an indisputable advantage.

Whatever they say European politicians and no matter how they try to get rid of Russian hydrocarbons, demand for Russian energy resources in Europe last years just grew up. In the first quarter of this year alone, Europe purchased 15% more Russian gas than a year earlier. The same situation is observed with oil. It is unlikely that we should expect a rebound in demand specifically for Russian oil. Oil deliveries from Yamal have already been contracted for years to come, and with the expansion of the geography of transportation and opportunities, they, of course, will only grow.

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The Novoportovskoye oil and gas condensate field is located in the southeastern part of the Yamal Peninsula, 250 km north of the city of Nadym and 30 km from the coast of the Gulf of Ob. The recoverable reserves of C1+C2 category liquid hydrocarbons are more than 250 million tons. The field development operator is Gazprom Neft PJSC.

Oil of a new grade, called Novy Port, according to its properties belongs to the category of light, and in terms of low sulfur content (about 0.1%) it exceeds in quality not only the Russian mixture Urals, but also the Brent grade.

The possibility of exporting oil by sea was confirmed in 2011 after pilot escort of a nuclear-powered icebreaker from the port of Sabetta (northeast of the Yamal Peninsula) to Cape Kamenny. The first experience in Russian history of exporting oil from Yamal by tanker by sea was obtained in July 2014.

The volume of investments in the development of the Novoportovskoye field amounted to 180 billion rubles, the expected tax revenues during the implementation of the project will exceed 1.5 trillion rubles.

The peculiarity of the Novoportovskoye field is that its gas part is really very large. In terms of gas reserves - 324 billion m3 (including Paleozoic deposits) - it can be classified as large. The full use of this resource base can pay for the creation of a gas pipeline to deliver gas from the field to the unified gas supply system. In addition, this will allow the efficient operation of the field to continue after 2022–2023, when oil production starts to decline.

For this, a unique infrastructure complex is being built in Novy Port for the effective monetization of all types of hydrocarbons: oil, condensate, and gas. The creation of such a complex will make it possible to involve the reserves of both the Novoportovskoye field and a number of others in the development with maximum efficiency. These are Yuzhno-Kamennomyssky, Yuzhno-Novoportovsky, Surovy license areas. While they are in the search stage. The key object of the new gas infrastructure will be the gas pipeline from the Novoportovskoye field to the main gas pipeline Yamburg-Tula. Investments in its construction will amount to more than 70 billion rubles.

Gazprom Neft is studying the possibility of building new marine terminals Yenisei, Krugly and Kharasavey in the Arctic to export products via the Northern Sea Route, according to a presentation by Rosatom presented as part of parliamentary hearings on the topic "On legislative support for advanced socio-economic development Far East and the Arctic."

Thus, according to the materials, the resource base of the Yenisei port construction project (at the mouth of the Yenisei River) is 1.3 billion tons of liquid hydrocarbons, the terminal is expected to be launched in 2027. Annual shipment can be up to 20 million tons per year. After the launch of the project, deductions to the regional budget may amount to 155 billion rubles, and to the federal budget - 1.97 trillion rubles. At the same time, the project needs state support measures in the form of dredging.

In August, Gazprom Neft received 12 licenses for geological study sites in the west of Taimyr (Western Taimyr sites 1 - 12). They are located on the territory of the Dolgano-Nenets municipal district Krasnoyarsk Territory. Previously, Gazprom Neft had no assets in Taimyr. As the head of Rosnedra Evgeny Kiselev stated, the Yenisei-Khatanga zone could become a new oil and gas province with huge commercial reserves, where all major Russian oil and gas companies have already entered.

In addition, according to the materials of Rosatom, Gazprom Neft is studying the possibility of building a Krugly post (the Gulf of Ob). The resource base of this project may amount to 3.5 billion tons, the launch year is 2024. The potential annual shipment is up to 20 million tons. Deductions to the regional budget are expected at the level of 200 billion rubles. per year, in the federal - up to 3.5 billion rubles. annually. The project also needs state support measures in the form of dredging.

In the Gulf of Ob, Gazprom Neft already operates the Gates of the Arctic port (capacity - 8.5 million tons per year), which ships oil from the large Novoportovskoye field. It is assumed that the port "Krugly" will be located on the opposite side of the "Gate of the Arctic" side of the Gulf of Ob. Gazprom Neft is implementing the Gas Yamala project in this region - the development of gas fields and the construction of a gas pipeline with a capacity of 20 billion cubic meters.

Also, according to the materials of Rosatom, Gazprom Neft is considering the possibility of building the port of Kharasavey in the north of the Yamal Peninsula: the resource base, annual loading and the year of launch are being specified. As expected measures of state support - the need for dredging of these projects.

Gazprom Neft itself does not comment on information about the company's plans to build new ports in the Arctic. According to a source in the company, no final decisions on the construction of oil terminals have been made yet. The company is working on various logistics schemes for its new Arctic projects, the source said.