Central Asia
| Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) Oil Field, | ||
Production from Central Azeri (CA) field began in February 2005 under phase I of the development. |
The ACG (Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli) field lies 120km off the coast of Azerbaijan in 120m of water and contains 5.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil. |
The West Azeri facilities include a 48-slot production, drilling and quarters (PDQ) platform and a 30in oil pipeline connecting to the expanded onshore Sangachal terminal. |
Phase I comprises two platforms, one for production and the other (pictured) for compression and to provide water-injection services. |
Oil from Central Azeri will travel through the BTC export pipeline. |
A close up of the ACG platform. |
| Blue Stream Natural Gas Pipeline, | ||
Pipe for the Blue Stream pipeline being prepared for loading. |
Map of the Blue Stream pipeline, which will carry natural gas from Russia to Turkey. |
The Saipem 7000 pipelaying vessel. |
Support was provided by Polar Prince. |
Blue Stream pipe transport barge. |
The Saipem 7000 was modified with a novel pipe installation system. |
| Kashagan, | ||
The 1515t Arcticaborg icebreaking vessel can continuously break ice 1m thick. |
The drillfloor of the Sunkar. |
The Sunkar station, which drills the Kashagan East well. |
One of three Arktos well tractors, used to provide emergency services. They can take up to 50 people each. |
The Arcticaborg in operation. |
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| KG-21 Well, Krishna-Godavari Basin | ||
A 1,500km pipe connects Krishna to the mainland. |
An aerial view of the Godavari area. |
A map of the area surrounding the Krishna Godavari Basin. |
| Khvalynskoye Oil and Gas Field | ||
The project field is about 260km from Astrakhan in Kazakhstan. |
The project is being developed jointly by Lukoil and KazMunaiGaz National Company. |
Under the agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan to develop hydrocarbon resources jointly, Lukoil and KMG formed a joint venture in 2005 to develop the Khvalynskoye field. |
| Mumbai High Field | ||
Mumbai High |
Arabian Sea map |
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| Rajasthan Block | ||
Work in progress at the Barmer Salaya Pipeline. |
The heat source for the MPT will be steam generated by five 115t/h boilers. |
Construction work being carried out at the Mangala oil field includes the building of the Mangala Processing Terminal (MPT). |
Some welding work took place at night. |
State-of-the-art mobile rigs were deployed for the first time in India. |
A view of the start-up power plant. |
The MPT will contain water recycling and gas recovery systems, 20 tanks and fire and safety systems. |
The MPT at night. |
Pipeline laying operations at Rajasthan. |
Full output at Rajasthan requires the completion of a 670km export pipeline being built by CIL. |
Construction work being carried out at the Mangala oil field includes the laying of a pipeline from MPT to the Gujarat coast. |
About 5,000 are working on the pipeline. |
The pipeline is expected to be completed by the end of 2009. |
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| Sakhalin II, | ||
The Piltun Astokhskoye field lies 16km off Sakhalin Island’s north-east shore, in the Sea of Okhotsk. |
The Molikpaq SALM is deployed for use on the Sakhalin II project. |
The unit's substructure includes a spacer, which also strengthens the Molikpaq against the region’s harsh, slamming waves. |
Van Oord ACZ towed the Molikpaq to the Astokhskoye field. |
The Rocky Giant was used to lay 27,000t of rock around the platform perimeter. |
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| Shah Deniz | ||
The 690km, 42in SCP has a capacity of about 565bn cubic feet/year and has been built in the same corridor as the 1,760km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil export pipeline, pictured here |
Construction of the BTC pipeline. |
Shah Deniz Alpha. |
