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The Shtokman gas and condensate field - one of the biggest offshore fields of its kind - was discovered in 1988. The field is located in the central part of the Russian sector of the Barents Sea shelf, about 600 km northeast of the city of Murmansk at sea depths varying from 320 to 340 m.
The field’s C1+C2 reserves account for 3.8 tcm of gas and circa 37 mln t of gas condensate.
The Gazprom Dobycha Shelf - a 100 percent Gazprom subsidiary - holds the license to the project. The operator company is the Shtokman Development Company, a Swiss-registered joint venture of Gazprom (51%), Total (25%) and Statoil (24%).
The Shtokman gas will be shipped partly by pipeline, partly as LNG.
According to plans, the field is to be in production from year 2016.
The village of Teriberka located northeast of Murmansk City has been chosen as the main hub for Shtokman operations.
Ceremony for Shtokman drilling rigs
Gazflot drilling rig (Vyborgshipyard.ru)
Launch of the first pontoons for the semisubmersible drilling rig for the Shtokman gas field will take place at the Vyborg Shipyard on July 7.
The launch will be marked by a seremony where Governor of Leningrad Oblast Valery Serdyukov and Deputy Chairman of the Board in Gazprom Aleksandr Ananenkov will take part, a press release from the shipyard reads.
As BarentsObserver reported, Mr. Ananenkov recently visited Vyborg Shipyard to inspect the progress.
Vyborg Shipyard and Gazprom’s daughter company Gazflot entered the contract on building of two semisubmersible drilling rigs for the Shtokman gas field in November 2007.
The rigs named the Polyarnoye Zvezda (“Polar Star“) and the Sevenoye Siyanie (“Northern Light“) will both be key components in the development of the Shtokman field.
The topsides for the rigs are under construction at the Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. They first rig is planned to be delivered in 2010, the second in 2011.
