DEBESSK OIL FIELD INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT DESIGN PROVED ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE
The head of Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Atomic Inspection Konstantin Pulikovsky has approved favorable conclusions made by the State Environmental Expertise expert committee on the project of the submerged crossing across the Kama river by the Vyatka – Ashit pipeline and Debessk oil field infrastructure development project design. The projects have been ordered by OAO Belkamneft, Izhevsk from OAO Oil and Gas Company RussNeft Ural Group.
As it was said to a REGIONS.RU correspondent at Rostechnadzor (Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technical and Atomic Supervision), the Kama crossing is the last part of a 24 kilometer pipeline Vyatka – Ashit, which has not been replaced as planned. The service span of the four kilometer section, in operation since 1987, will be used in 3 years. According to the project the 1412 km of the pipeline at the new section unlike the old one – being seagoing pipeline – will be constructed under the Kama river bed at a depth of 6 – 16 metres. The section will be made by means of horizontal directional drilling; this will allow to avoid breaking the shipping and minimize negative impact on the river and environment. The launch of the project is scheduled for the end of the year.
Infrastructure development project design of the Debessk oil field – located in the Udmurt Republic – plans drilling and infrastructure development of 80 production wells, oil pipeline construction prior to that of an oil treatment plant at the Smolnyakovsk field. Then oil from the Debessk field will be transferred to the Kholmogory – Klin oil trunk pipeline, owned by OAO Severo-Zapadniye magistralniye nefteprovody (North-west trunk pipelines) – a subsidiary of the Joint Stock Company Transneft. It is planned to put it into operation in June.
Committee’s conclusions say the projects have been fulfilled in accordance with the ecological safety and environmental protection legislative requirements of the Russian Federation. The environmental impact is admissible and project performance is feasible.