No doubt, all of you have at least some notion of what Sakhalin is. A large island in the very East of Russia with bears walking along its streets and people going to work by deer and having caviar for breakfast… But all this is well-known that’s why today we decided to tell you about something that you probably don’t yet know about Sakhalin, namely how oil and gas are extracted there.
One of the two large oil projects is called “Sakhalin-1″.
The project includes the development of three oilfields: Chayvo, Odoptu and Arkutun-Dagi located on the northeast shelf of Sakhalin. The development of the first two of them is already in full swing.
The Odoptu field is located 9 km away the northeast coast of Sakhalin, near Piltun Bay.
And this is the small model of Chayvo.
The development of a field is carried out with the help of the boring rig called “Yastreb” (“Hawk”).
At the moment, “Yastreb” is the largest and most powerful in the world land-based boring rig, specially designed for the “Sakhalin-1″ by “Parker Drilling”. It was assembled in the United States in 2002, then tested, disassembled and brought to Sakhalin.
The height of this thing is about 70 m.
The offshore platform “Orlan” extracts oil as well. All year round it drills oil wells. Now there are already 21 of them. The length of the trunk of most wells is about 5-7 km.
The previous photo was made from the window of this bird. If the weather is good, it transports people to “Orlan”.
If the weather is bad, they have to shake for hours in the orange KAMAZ cars like those which can be seen at the photo.
The platform houses the minimum number of facilities intended for the preparation of the product. Only drilling and dwelling modules.
All extracted product goes to the onshore processing facility called “Chayvo”.
The purpose of this gigantic thing is to divide the product from wells into oil, gas and deposit water. The deposit water is injected back into the wells, oil and gas are stabilized and transported by the pipeline to the oil terminal.
The complex is designed to produce approximately 250 thousand barrels of oil and 22 million cubic meters of gas per day.
The storage of crude oil.
Sakhalin.
Looks very beautiful at night.
Within a radius of several kilometers from the plant it’s quite light.
From Chayvo oil goes by the underwater pipeline (about 200 km long) to the De-Kastri oil terminal (the mainland part of Russia, Khabarovsky Krai).
Storage tanks at De-Kastri.
Facilities for loading oil for its further delivery to international markets. Basically, it’s Japan and Korea.
“Sokol” (“Falcon”) is one of the world’s largest facilities for filling tankers which depart once every 3-4 days.
Special tankers with the double frame and loading capacity of about 100 thousand tons work all year round.
A few words about the future stages of the project and pictures from construction sites.
The Arkutun Dagi field is located approximately 25 km from the northeast coast of Sakhalin.
The development of this field will be carried out with help of the new offshore boring and extracting platform. Oil and gas will be transported by a new flowline to the existing onshore processing facility.
The start of operation of Arkutun Dagi is going to be held in 2014. The peak production will make up 4.5 million tonnes.
Some pictures of the workers.
Location: Sakhalin
via leprosorium.ru
It’s sad that all the money from the oil is going to oligarchs and foreign companies instead of the Russian people.
Every crude materials should belong to the state.
A basic error of leftists – assuming that “belonging to the state” is the same as “belonging to the people”. I have to wonder at people who, even having the history of the 20th century in front of them to examine, still believe that the state can even remotely be counted on to have the best interests of the people at heart.
I’m no communist but historian is right on right one, IMO. The profit motive and market capitalism don’t work well on oil and gas.
I meant to say that he is right on THIS one.
If it was really true that “the state are the people”, there would be no such thing as repression of the people by a state. Such a thing would, in fact, be impossible. It doesn’t take much of a “historian”, however, to know that there has actually been quite a lot of that in human history, and that some of the most extreme cases in recent memory have been in places where the state owned everything, and claimed that it did so in the name of the people.
Do you really think that under the Communists, everything really belonged to “the people”? Do you think that Pemex, the state-run oil company in Mexico, really operates for the benefit of the Mexican people? Do you think that the state-owned oil companies in Libya under Ghaddafi and Iraq under Saddam Hussein really operated for the benefit of the Libyan and Iraqi people?
Sorry, “historian”, but you have a big ‘ol History Fail (not to mention Economics Fail and Geopolitics Fail) going on there.
Wasn’t this island stolen from the Japanese after WW2?
So using that same reasoning, I could say that the Crimea was stolen from Russia by Ukraine in 1954. Lets see how interesting any replies to this are.
How bad is the climate there, that the drill rigs need to be completely enclosed?
If all crude oil comes from fossilized organic matter (ancient algae, zooplankton, ferns, etc.) how do evangelicals and creationists explain it’s presence?
Magic, of course!
They claim that god put it there I suppose.Some of the most hard core think that things like fossils where made by Satan to make people not believe in god.That is what happens when you read something and take it to be the literal truth I suppose.
@marxistworker, you’re asking how evangelicals and creationists explain how crude oil comes from fossilized organic matter, on englishrussia.com???
Shouldn’t you be asking at a creationist web site???
Or are you afraid that you’ll get a reasonable response and will need to come to the conclusion that what YOU believe is bullsh1t??
Google it at least!!
It’s called a rhetorical question, Chris. Google “rhetorical”…
I dunno. Here’s another good question: If hydrocarbons only come from fossilized matter, why is there methane on Titan and Neptune?
WHY all this American technology; are Russians too DUMB to get this done themselves??
Cool, i worked on fire seferty project for Chaivo oilfield.