Development of the Oil and Gas Fields' Cluster in the Pechora Sea

• Main Author: Berlin, Nikita
• Other Authors: Gudmestad, Ove Tobias, Zolotukhin, Anatoly Borisovich
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Stavanger, Norway 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Pechora Sea; LNG; FLNG; GBS; SPS; Dolginskoye field; Pomorskoye field; North-Gulyaevskoye field; sluster fields’ development; subsea production system; oil and gas fields; ice loads; wave loads; petroleumsteknologi; offshore teknologi; VDP::Teknologi: 500::Marin teknologi: 580::Offshoreteknologi: 581; Pomorskoye; Pechora
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2678550

Master's thesis in Offshore technology The Master Thesis aims to develop a cluster oil and gas fields development concept in the Pechora sea and carry out an economic feasibility estimation of this concept. The first chapter describes the climatic conditions of the Pechora Sea. The geographical characteristics and characteristics of hydrometeorological and ice conditions are under consideration. The second chapter introduces the main challenges linked with offshore arctic oil and gas fields’ development. The third chapter presents the selection of a field-group for a cluster development consideration. After that, the design of the development concepts for the selected group of fields was carried out. The chosen fields are Dolginkoye, North-Gulyaevskoye and Pomorskoye oil and gas/condensate fields. The production profile for each field and the total production profile have been plotted. The fourth chapter presents the infrastructure choice for the chosen cluster development concept: the choice of a gravitational-type platform design; selection of an LNG plant and natural gas liquefaction technology; selection of subsea production systems; choice of a loading and shipment method of carriers for transportation of extracted products. In the fifth chapter, the concept's economic feasibility and the further selection of the most cost-effective concept was under consideration.