Production drilling is set to start later this month at Russia’s first Arctic offshore field in a critical litmus test of its ability to carry out operations in the hostile frontier region, according to a report.
The Prirazlomnaya platform – Russia’s first facility for permanent oil drilling in the Arctic – is gearing up to start producing soon from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Pechora Sea, where it is surrounded by 50-metre thick ice, the Barents Observer reported, citing a Russian-language press release from fabrication yard Sevmash.
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