Khanty-Mansiysk. OAO NAK AKI-OTYR, producing OAO NK RussNeft subsidiary, continues engineering infrastructure development at Verkhne-Shapshinskoye field. The equipment supply for oil dehydration is almost completed.
Equipment including oil heaters, three phase separators, isolation and control valves will allow to separate produced water, associated petroleum gas, thus preparing oil for transportation to the oil treatment facilities of Nizhne-Shapshinskoye field.
Construction and assembling operations as well as commissioning and start-up is scheduled for later 2013 and Q1 2014.
Implementation of this project will allow to achieve the necessary quality of oil treatment and to decrease expenses for oil transportation to Nizhne-Shapshinskoye field.
Commissioning and start-up of the facilities will continue the policy of RussNeft targeted at development of the optimal operational arrangements at Shapshinskaya group of fields.