Russia to Pursue offshore Oil and Gas
June 28, 2006
According to UPI, Russia's first offshore oil and gas platform, LUN-A, is in operation in the sea of Okhotsk on the Sakhalin Shelf.
The platform will be used to drill 27 wells and the produced gas will be transported over a 497-mile pipeline to a liquefied natural gas plant being built in the settlement of Prigorodnoye south of Sakhalin, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
The installation of the LUN-A platform is part of the Sakhalin-2 project run by the Sakhalin Energy international company. Source: UPI
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