Russia’s Sakhalin Energy has started a seasonal turnaround campaign at the Molikpaq offshore oil and gas platform which is one of the Sakhalin-2 production assets.
Sakhalin
Energy said that over 300 people, including about 160 maintenance contractor
personnel, would be involved in this effort.
In addition
to multiphase separation equipment clean-up and purging, the company will carry
out regular turbine inspections, upgrade the platform’s control and safety
systems, replace some pipe sections and other equipment.
A tube
bundle in one of the platform’s heat exchangers will also be replaced with a
special-order titanium version. The replacement bundle will soon be delivered
to Sakhalin Island and then shipped to the platform.
Roman Dashkov, Sakhalin Energy’s CEO said: “We have already successfully completed the integrated gas system turnaround campaign and are now commencing maintenance operations at our oil production platforms.
“Our delivery schedules have been agreed with the customers to fully reflect these activities. Despite pandemic-related challenges, all of them are proceeding per schedule”.
Sakhalin
Energy stated that the maintenance and inspection activities would take a month
to complete. After that, the platform will be fully restarted.
In the
meanwhile, the company will continue delivering its plans by producing and
shipping crude oil and LNG to buyers in the Asia-Pacific. About 3.5 standard
oil cargoes, or approximately 2.4 mmbbls, will be produced over this period.
Molikpaq is
the first offshore platform installed in Russian waters as part of the
Sakhalin-2 project. In April 2020, it reached a 300 mmbbls milestone since the
start of production in 1999.
It is worth reminding that Sakhalin Energy recently closed one LNG train at the Sakhalin-2 facility for planned maintenance.
The
maintenance of the LNG train also included the Lunskoye-A offshore platform
that produces the majority of the gas for the LNG plant, and the onshore
processing facility booster station No. 2.
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Source: LNG World News