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Arctic oil production more than doubled
Russian oil company Gazprom Neft said its production from a field in Arctic waters more than doubled from levels reported in 2015.
The company said total production from the Prirazlomnaya oil field in the Russian waters above the Arctic Circle totaled 15.7 million barrels for full-year 2016, an increase from the 5.8 million recorded the previous year.
Prirazlomnoye is the first and only field in production in the Russian Arctic. Commercial oil production started in late 2013 and the first batch of oil for delivery was sent in April 2014.
Advocacy groups like Greenpeace have been critical about oil operations in the extreme climates of the Arctic north, saying an oil spill in the region would be catastrophic and difficult to control.
Gazprom Neft said a stationary rig at the site is designed specifically to ensure the risks of a spill are minimized to the greatest extent possible.
“Safety is foremost in all operations, with loading commencing only once 30 separate safety requirements are all complied with,” the company stated. “The offloading line for the pumping of oil to tankers is equipped with an emergency shut-down system, allowing offloading to be terminated instantaneously.”
Oil from the Arctic field is considered high-density and used typically for road construction and some aerospace industries.
The production growth last year from Prirazlomnoye follows a Russia pledge to join in efforts steered by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to balance the market. An oversupply of oil, led in part by U.S. shale oil production, pushed crude oil prices to historic lows in early 2016.
5 Comments on "Arctic oil production more than doubled"
Apneaman on Thu, 2nd Feb 2017 9:28 am
Oil production releases more methane than previously thought
“”In an oil reservoir, there is a layer of gas above the oil which has a methane content of 50 to 85 percent. When you pump the oil to the surface this associated gas will also escape,” explains IIASA researcher Lena Höglund-Isaksson, who led the study. In oil production facilities in North America, almost all of this gas is recovered and what is not recovered will for the most part be flared to prevent leakage (and potential explosions), while a very small fraction is simply vented. In other parts of the world, where recovery rates are lower, much larger quantities of this gas are released into the atmosphere.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170201092615.htm
Sissyfuss on Thu, 2nd Feb 2017 11:49 am
Melting the ice to make the ice melter more available. These guys are good!
Sissyfuss on Thu, 2nd Feb 2017 12:13 pm
Identitarian, that was a sneering two liner so you can stop labeling me and negating me simultaneously.
BobInget on Thu, 2nd Feb 2017 1:38 pm
Permafrost melt will take care of those Arctic Pipelines
in Siberia and Alaska.
Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 12:30 pm
The other side of the story
More open waters as Arctic temperatures break records.
This was Russia’s Arctic weather in 2016
«These kind of temperatures have never before been registered in the region», the country’s Hydrometeorological Center says.
“Heat records were beaten one after another all over the region. In the northern part of the Barents Sea, the average 2016 temperature was as much as eight degrees above normal, information from the center show. Practically all Russian areas north of the Arctic Circle was an average of at least three degrees above normal. ”
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-ecology/2017/02/was-russias-arctic-weather-2016