The RN-Vankor company (part of Rosneft) has started natural gas production at the new cluster site of the Suzunskoye field as part of the Vostok Oil project. The daily production volume is about 1.8 million m3 of gas. The extracted gas, after the necessary preparation, is sent via an inter-field gas pipeline with a length of 79 km to the Vankor production site.
As part of the implementation of the gas program, the construction of a gas treatment plant with a compressor station for associated petroleum gas (APG) with a capacity of 2.1 billion m3 per year continues at the Suzun production site. The plant will prepare a mixture of natural and associated petroleum gas coming from wells, as well as from the oil treatment plant, to marketable quality. All this will make it possible to reach 100% of the level of useful use of APG at the Suzunskoye field by the end of 2023.
To date, more than 46 billion m3 of commercial gas has been sent to consumers from the fields of the Vankor cluster through the Unified Gas Supply System of the country.
The Vostok Oil project provides for 100% use of APG already at the design stage. The raw materials will be used mainly to generate electricity at Vostok Oil gas turbine power plants with a total capacity of 3.5 GW. Full utilization of associated petroleum gas will provide the project with a carbon footprint 75% lower than that of other new major oil projects in the world.
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Vostok Oil is the largest investment project in the global oil and gas industry. The resource base is 6.5 billion tons of low–sulfur oil. The Vostok Oil project includes 52 license areas in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, where 13 oil and gas fields are located, including the Vankorskoye fields (including the Vankorskoye, Suzunskoye, Tagulskoye and Lodochnoye fields) and the Payakhskoye clusters.
Source: rosneft.ru