Highlights of the Project

  • first PSA agreement signed in Russia;
  • first operating PSA in Russia;
  • first offshore oil and gas operation in Russia;
  • first simultaneous implementation of several large interconnected green field sub-projects in Russia;
  • phase 1 project financing first funding of its kind in Russia’s oil and gas industry;
  • largest project finance deal in Russia (2008);
  • first offshore platform installed in Russia (Molikpaq);
  • zero to minimal gas flaring, the first system of its kind in Russia (Molikpaq);
  • first construction of water injection and po wergeneration modules in Russia: Amur shipyards in Komsomolsk for the Molikpaq (PA-A) platform;
  • first use of directional hydraulic fracturing, of formation for well completion in Russia (Molikpaq platform);
  • first use of indirect fracture of formation for well completion in Russia (the Molikpaq platform);
  • first commercially produced oil from an offshore platform in Russia (Molikpaq) on the continental shelf;
  • first concrete gravity base structure in Russia, built for the Lunskoye-A platform (Lun-A);
  • first ice class stationary gas production platform installed in Russia — Lunskoye-A platform (Lun-A);
  • float-over of the Lunskoye-A, 21,800 tonnes topsides in 2006 a world and Russian record in 2006;
  • installation of friction pendulum bearings on Lunskoye-A is first use of these bearings in the oil and gas industry anywhere in the world;
  • float-over of 28,000 tonnes Piltun-Astokhskoye-B (PA-B) topsides in 2007 broke the float-over record;
  • first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant — the first of the kind built in Russia;
  • first import of LNG to Russia;
  • first export of LNG from Russia;
  • first LNG carrier to enter Russian territorial waters — Granosa in 2007;
  • first time LNG measurement methodology was used in Russia;
  • first use ISSOW electronic permit to work system used in Russia;
  • first time an oil and gas company set up a business and scientific cooperative group, the Western Gray Whales Advisory Panel;
  • first road safety partnership between public administration and business in Russia (Sakhalin Road Safety Partnership);
  • the first offshore 4D seismic survey in Russia.
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