Dmitry Medvedev’s meeting with oil and gas industry workers.
Video conference with oil and gas industry employees
The Shpilman (Severo-Rogozhnikovskoye) oil deposit was discovered in 1998. It is located on two licensed sections in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra. Hydrocarbons prospecting, exploration and production licenses are held by Surgutneftegaz.
Initial geological oil reserves are about 398 million tonnes; recoverable oil reserves are about 90 million tonnes.
The deposit project documentation provides for drilling 1,457 wells, including 1,160 production wells and 267 injection wells.
The Yuzhno-Priobsky gas refinery is a joint Gazpromneft-Sibur project, established in February 2014.
The plant’s principal area of activity is processing associated petroleum gas from the Priobskoye deposit located in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. Its capacity is 900 million cubic metres a year. It will annually produce 350,000 tonnes of a broad fraction of light hydrocarbons and 750 million cubic metres of dry stripped gas, a valuable raw material for the petrochemical industry.
From Dmitry Medvedev’s opening remarks at the video conference:
Video conference with oil and gas industry employees
Over the past few years, the following gas pipelines have been put into operation — Blue Stream, Nord Stream, and the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline, as well as two stages of the East Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline. Commercial field operations have begun on the Yamal Peninsula, East Siberia, the north Caspian and the Arctic shelf. As a result, last year, an oil production record was set – almost 527 million tonnes.
Russia has major hydrocarbon reserves. Our oil and gas industry is the basis of our economy, generating almost one-quarter of the GDP and over two-thirds of the export revenues for the federal budget. They provide energy resources to other industries, generate a demand for high-tech equipment and ensure reliable fuel supplies to consumers inside and outside Russia.
Today, a simple increase in the production and export of resources is insufficient for dynamic development. This is not only due to the situation prevailing today or stock exchange speculation or oil and gas trade cycles. In recent years, new producers and absolutely new technologies have appeared for the production and processing of raw materials. Emerging markets and countries are becoming principal consumers. Competition is becoming stiffer. All of this should be taken into account in developing Russia’s energy strategy to 2035.
Russian oil and gas companies should be in a position to respond effectively to these trends and retain their leading positions. The projects that we will launch today bear this out.
Today, during our video conference, we will give a start to Surgutneftegaz’s project to develop the Shpilman oil field with recoverable reserves of about 90 million tonnes and also launch the Yuzhno-Priobsky gas refinery, which is a joint Gazpromneft-Sibur project, which can process up to 900 million cubic metres of associated gas a year.
