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Russia inaugurates the first oil terminal harbour assets all the year in the Arctic area
Investment of approximately 2,8 billion dollars
May 26, 2016
Yesterday Russian president Vladimir Putin, with an participation in television conference, has inaugurated the activity of the new harbour terminal oil Vorota Arktiki (Artic Gate), in the Gulf of Ob, with the cargo on a ship of the oil extracted from the Gazprom Russian from the oil reservoir Novoportovskoye. The terminal in the Arctic region is constructed with the objective to allow the activity of transport of oil in the course of all the year, also with extreme meteorological conditions.
"Today - it has emphasized Putin - we mark the start of a new phase of development of the Peninsula of Yamal and a new phase in the development of the Novoportovskoye reservoir. This is an important and symbolic event. This is one of the plans higher intensity than vital in the field of the oil and the gas of Russia. In the arc of last the three years - it has explained - a total of 186 billion rubles is invested (2,8 billion dollars, ndr) and is adopted new technological solutions that will be profitable possible to work in the more northern part of the area of the Yamal Peninsula in extreme environmental conditions. This - it has emphasized - is the first turns in which the oil it is transported by this area not via oil pipe-line, but via sea".
the managing director of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, has remembered that the new harbour terminal "is situated to 700 kilometers from the current net of oil pipe-lines, than an oil pipe-line of beyond 100 kilometers the colleague to the reservoir of Novoportovskoye and that the terminal has an ability to 8,5 million tons. The terminal - it has added Miller- returns the transport of oil also in meteorological conditions possible and geographic extreme, with rigid temperatures until -50 degrees Celsius, twenty until 40 meters to the second and with ice of the thickness of 2,5 meters in the Gulf of Ob".
the general manager of Gazprom Neft, Alexander Dyukov has evidenced that the sulfur tenor of the oil of the Novoportovskoye reservoir is inferior to 0.1% and that draft of light oil of quality and advanced quotation to the Brent.
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