Work to transport a 10,250-ton central processing platform (CPP) topside section for the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the northern part of the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea started this week.
The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS), which is involved in the preparation and transportation of the topside, said the topside was transfered from the quay to the Yury Kuvykina barge, using lifting jacks, on 5 June at the sub-assembly yard in Ilyinka, Astrakhan region.
On 29 May 2014, the second stage facility of the V. Filanovsky field development - an ice-resistant fixed platform (IFP 2) was laid down at OOO Galaktika shipyard, Astrakhan.
The IFP 2 will enable simultaneous drilling and production, says RS. The customer is OOO Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft. Drilling facilities, power complex and product side are located at the platform.
Some 15 directional wells will be drilled from the platform, with horizontal hole injection: nine will be for production and six for injection, for field pressure maintenance.
The power complex is designed for power and heat supply to the IFP 2 drilling and production facilities and living quarter platform (LQP 2) life-support system.
In December, Astrakhan’s Krasnye Barrikady shipyard started constructing the living quarter platform (LQP-2) for the Vladimir Filanovsky field development.
The shipyard will construct two bearing blocks, the topside of the LQP and a catwalk bridge to connect the LQP-2 and the ice-resistant platform (IRP-2).
The LQP-2 will accommodate 55 people and include a helicopter pad.The LQP-2 is to be commissioned in the autumn of 2016.In the Caspian Sea, in the coldest months, the summit temperature averages -20° C (-4° F) and can drop as low as -36° C (-32.8° F).
Commercial drilling at Vladimir Filanovsky is due to start in 2014. Oil production is to begin by the end of 2015.