Russian Oil and Gas Industry: News #3

PapaDragon wrote:

kvs wrote:You make a good point.  Recently Banderastan demanded to be given the role of operator of Nord Stream II.  ...

Did they put it in official document?

I could use a laugh  

EU has an issue with "monopoly" and will pretend to fight with ones under antimonopoly legislature.

This is all antimonopoly legislature, all companies operate in the same conditions.

Gazprom will get the money in any scenario.

ALAMO wrote:It is a very old and inadequate chart.
The lion's share of differences is located in the Balkans, and all of them are more deadly to 404 positions than NS2.
I have tried to find more actual and accurate, but can't.
So just imagine the waste net connecting TurkStream with functionally all the Balkans, heading Italy, and add an "anti-Russian" pipe from the Romanian Black Sea coast up to Austria, with bypasses to both Hungary and Slovakia. Connected to the Turk Stream as well, and filled with Russian gas until 2025 at least (2030 more realistic, in optimistic scenario)

Edit : I have found one, still not perfect.

Russia’s offshore Arctic industrialization is in full swing. The nearly 50,000 tons first train module for the Arctic LNG 2 project has expected arrival in Murmansk on September 16.

The module is built at Wison Offshore & Marine’s Zhoushan yard in China and is now under shipping towards Novatek’s Kola yard in Belokamenka north of Murmansk. Here, the giant model will be mounted to a large gravity-based structure before final towing to the coast of far northern Gydan Peninsula in Ob Bay in Siberia.

The facility will be Novatek’s first train for Arctic liquid natural gas (LNG) 2 plant. Production at Train 1 is scheduled for 2023. A year later, in 2024, Train 2 will start production, while the final Train 3 is set to start operation in 2025.

Each of the three trains will have a production capacity of 6,6 million tons per year, according to Novatek.

The company is Russia’s largest privately-owned natural gas company and is today operating the Yamal LNG plant in Sabetta. Unlike Yamal LNG, the Arctic LNG 2 will entirely be based on a floating production concept.

It is the Norwegian GPO Heavylift’s vessel “GPO Grace” that brings the LNG production plant from China to Murmansk in what is one of the largest structures ever transported via the Arctic shipping lane. On September 2, the vessel sailed northbound outside the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to AIS data. Estimated arrival at the Kola yard in Belokamenka is September 16.

The “GPO Grace”, though, isn’t the only giant open-deck transport vessel to sail the Northern Sea Route this September. Currently, the “Biglift Barentsz” sails west in the East Siberian Sea with an estimated arrival to Gydan in the Ob bay on September 10. The ship brings infrastructure facilities to the ongoing preparation for Arctic LNG 2. Construction of pipelines, pump stations, housing, an airport, and port facilities are in full swing. According to online ship-tracking service MarineTraffic.com, there are currently more than 40 vessels near the location on the eastern shores of the Ob bay

August, September, and October are the busiest months for shipping of construction materials to the area, as the Ob bay and waters in the Kara Sea are mostly ice-free.

The Arctic LNG 2 will process gas from Utrenneye field on the Gydan Peninsula in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

When the investment decision for the project was made in September 2019, the total costs for bringing the Arctic LNG 2 to full capacity were estimated at $21,3 billion.

Novatek holds a 60% share in the project, while TotalEnergies, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) hold 10% each. That last 10% belongs to a consortium of the two Japanese corporations JOGMEC and Mitsui.

Like the LNG produced at the Sabetta plant, the Arctic LNG 2 will ship the gas to markets both in Asia and Europe. A large fleet of ice-classed LNG tankers will sail east and west, and two reloading facilities are to be established, in Ura Guba on the Kola Peninsula for European shipping and another at Kamchatka for the Asian market.

Today, in the teleconference mode, a solemn ceremony of commissioning the world's largest logistics center for servicing helium containers for transporting liquid helium to the world market took place.
The helium hub is located on the territory of the Nadezhdinskaya ASEZ in the Primorsky Territory - near the seaports. It is a key link in the supply chain of commercial helium from the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP). The hub's task is to service containers sent to the GPP for filling, organize logistics, receive, weight control and prepare insulated containers arriving from the Amur GPP for the upcoming loading on sea vessels. The containers are designed to maintain a temperature of -269 ° C to keep helium in a liquefied state.

Transportation of containers is provided by the own vehicle fleet of the helium hub operator - Gazprom Helium Service LLC. The KAMAZ-5490 Neo main-line tractors specially designed for Gazprom are equipped with air suspension, which provides the necessary conditions for the safe transportation of helium. At the same time, cars use environmentally friendly motor fuel - liquefied natural gas. It is produced directly at the hub site.

The launch of the logistics center is synchronized with the consistent increase in the capacity of the Amur GPP. The second technological line of the plant was launched the day before (there will be six in total). The first of three helium extraction, liquefaction and filling units began operation. Unit capacity - 20 million cubic meters. m of helium per year. In the technological process for the production of helium, in particular, spiral heat exchangers are used. Their production was first mastered in Russia - at a machine-building plant in St. Petersburg.

After the Amur GPP reaches its design capacity, 60 million cubic meters of gas will be produced here annually. m of helium - according to this indicator, the plant is the world leader.

“The throughput capacity of the hub will reach more than four thousand operations with iso-containers per year. This is an unprecedented amount, since at the moment there are only two thousand cryogenic iso-containers in the world, which together transport all the helium produced in the world. Starting today, the entire technological chain - from helium production at the Amur Gas Processing Plant to its delivery to consumers - is in operation! " - said Alexey Miller.

The construction of the Amur GPP, one of the most powerful in the world, is being carried out in the area of ​​Svobodny, Amur Region. Multicomponent gas from the Chayandinskoye field (Yakutia) is supplied to the plant via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline; in the future, gas will also be supplied from the Kovykta field (Irkutsk Region). The design capacity of the plant will be 42 billion cubic meters. meters of gas per year.

On June 9, 2021, with the participation of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, a solemn ceremony of launching the first production line of the Amur GPP took place. The implementation of such a large-scale refining project has no analogues in the history of the Russian gas industry. From 2025, the GPP will reach its full design capacity.

The products of the Amur GPP are commercial gas (methane) and components isolated from it, valuable for the gas chemical and other industrial sectors. With the help of the most modern equipment and advanced cryogenic technologies at full load, 2.4 million tons of ethane, 1.5 million tons of liquefied hydrocarbon gases (LPG), 200 thousand tons of pentane-hexane fraction will be produced here annually. The main consumer of ethane and LPG from the Amur GPP will be the Amur Gas Chemical Complex (a joint project of SIBUR and the Chinese company Sinopec).

The investor, customer and operating organization of the Amur GPP is OOO Gazprom pererabotka Blagoveshchensk (part of the Gazprom group). Construction management is carried out by JSC NIPIGAZ (SIBUR Group).

August 23, 2021 in the area of ​​the settlement Perevalnoye of the Republic of Crimea, a gas pipeline section was blown up.

In the course of the carried out operational-search measures and investigative actions, it was established that the sabotage was organized by the territorial subdivision of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in Kherson - the so-called operational service "Tavria" with the participation of the organization "Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People" banned in Russia ("Majlis").

On September 4, 2021, FSB officers detained residents of the Republic of Crimea - mediator - deputy chairman of the Mejlis Nariman Dzhelyalov, direct perpetrators of the sabotage Asan and Aziz Akhtemov.

At the direction of one of the leaders of the banned "Mejlis" in June of this year. performers traveled to Ukraine in Kherson, where employees of the GUR taught them explosives. For committing sabotage, the military intelligence of Ukraine promised them a monetary reward of about $ 2,000.

An explosive device in a conspiratorial way in July of this year. was delivered to the Crimea.

The action was planned to coincide with the Independence Day of Ukraine.

The organizers of the sabotage are - Riza Yagyaev-Veliulaev, an agent of the GUR, who fled Crimea after a thwarted terrorist act in August 2016, in whose complicity he took part, as well as his curators - Ukrainian military intelligence officer Maxim Martynyuk and his immediate superior, the head of the operational service Tavria - Viktor Zelinsky.

This sabotage was sanctioned by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov - a participant in an unsuccessful action in 2016, during which he killed an employee of the FSB of Russia.

The territorial security agency opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 281 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("sabotage"), which provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment from 10 to 15 years.

All detainees have been chosen as a preventive measure - detention.

During a morning briefing at Gazprom, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee, announced that the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was fully completed at 8:45 am (Moscow time) earlier this morning.