Khanty-Mansiysk, KhMAO-Yugra. OAO NAK AKI-OTYR, subsidiary of RussNeft, carries on implementation of the gas program.
The company plans to upgrade the flare system at Verkhne-Shapshinskoye field booster pump station by replacing the flare head with a modernized one with an adjustable equivalent diameter. The equipment has a big through-put capacity. Installation of a more up-to-date and effective equipment will allow to increase the flare system productivity. The uniqueness of this flare head is provision of smokeless (carbon-less) burning at various intervals of the associated petroleum gas burning rates. This facilitates reduction of the environmentally hazardous emissions into the atmosphere and enhancement of the ecology security, thus decreasing the environmental impact.
The gas program which is implemented by the company brings both sizable economic effect and allows to improve the ecology in the areas of the fields under development.