Gazpromdobychashelf, the wholly owned Gazprom subsidiary and operator of Shtockman projects, has annouced to expect the completion of the FEED for the offshore pipeline at the end of the year.
In parallel, WorleyParsons is making good progress on the FEED of the FPSO, the solution selected for the second and third phases of Shtockman.
With a weight of 253 000 t and a length of 320 m these two vessels would process the gas condensates and store them before offloading shuttle tankers.
This concept has been preferred on the FPO selected for the first phase where the gas and condensates should be treated onshore.
These pipelines will be therefore different as multiphases flow for Shtockman phase 1 to carry on the gas and condensates mixture to the shore while it should be a single phase gas pipeline for the phases 2 and 3.
These different concepts are progressing at their own speed, so that Andrey Petrulevich, the Gazpromdobychashelf Deputy Head of industrial safety, monitoring and risks analysis declared that technically nothing prevent the third phase from starting to produce gas and condensate before the first and the second phases are commissioned.
Total and Statoil, who share 49% of Shtockman phase 1, are still in discussion with the Russian government on tax break to make final decision.In addition to the production FPO and FPSOs, Gazprom has decided to build a stop-over offshore platform in the Barents Sea to host living quarter, support the food supply and helicopters logistic.
