This is the first commercial offshore oil development in the Arctic, operated by Gazprom. Prirazlomnoje is located in the Pechora Sea, 500 nm east of Murmansk, south of Novaja Zemlja, in about 40m water depth.
Prirazlomnoye field has reserves of 610MMbbl (97MMcm). The estimated maximum annual oil production volume is expected to be 6.6 million tonnes. The field development concept is based on a single, stationary, iceresistant platform. The Prirazlomnoje platform is being built by Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk.
Produced oil will be transported by doubleacting shuttle oil tankers Mikhail Ulyanov and Kirill Lavrov, built in the Admiralty Shipyard and operated by Sovcomflot, to floating storage and offloading vessel Belokamenka, located in Kola Bay near Murmansk.
After several years of delay, production will start soon.