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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered build four new islands in the Barents Sea. They will produce equipment for the production and storage of natural gas.

The government order states that in accordance with Article 7 of the Federal Law “On artificial land plots created on water bodies in federal ownership and on amendments to certain legislative acts Russian Federation"to determine that Rosmorrechflot concludes agreements with the limited liability company "Kola Shipyard" on the creation of 4 artificial land plots in the Kola Bay (middle elbow) of the Barents Sea for the purpose of construction and operation of the facilities "Center for the Construction of Large-Capacity Offshore Structures (TSSKMS). Complex for the manufacture of gravity-type foundations and integration of topsides modules" without holding an open auction for the right to conclude such contracts.

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New plots of land will appear in the Kola Bay by 2020, and the cost of the project is estimated at 25 billion rubles. The government guarantees that not a single penny from the budget will leak into the Barents Sea - Kola Shipyard LLC, a subsidiary of NOVATEK, will invest in the project. The company did not go through any competitive procedures - at the disposal of the prime minister it is listed as the only contractor.

On artificial islands in the Kola Bay there will be a Center for the Construction of Large-Capacity Offshore Structures, which will be engaged in the manufacture of offshore complexes for the production, storage and shipment of liquefied natural gas on the shelf in Murmansk region, as well as repair and maintenance of marine equipment. The prime minister’s order states that the new facilities will create about 10,000 jobs in the Arctic, as well as “increase tax revenues to budgets of all levels,” attract investment to the region and develop new technologies in production. It is known that construction will be carried out as part of the Arctic LNG project for the development of Arctic gas shelves, and the Gydan field will serve as the resource base for the center on the islands. It is planned that about 16.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas will be produced there annually.

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NOVATEK reports that the Company's subsidiary Arctic LNG-1 LLC won the auction for the right to use the subsoil of the Gydansky site for the purpose of geological study, exploration and production of hydrocarbons. The license is issued for a period of 27 years. Based on the results of the auction, the one-time payment for the use of subsoil was determined at the level of RUB 2,262 million.

The company already has a significant raw material base on the Gydan Peninsula, including the Utrenneye, Geofizicheskoye and Ladertoyskoye fields, as well as the Trekhbugorny, Nyavuyakhsky, West Solpatinsky, Tanamsky and North Tanamsky areas. The Gydansky site is located in close proximity to the Utrenneye field, which will serve as a resource base for the Arctic LNG-2 project. Obtaining a license for the Gydansky area allows us to significantly increase NOVATEK’s resource base on the Gydan Peninsula and consider new large-scale LNG projects of the Company. By Russian classification the total resource potential of the site is 4,740 million barrels of oil equivalent of hydrocarbons.

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Licenses for the development of the Geophysical and Salmanovskoye (Utrenneye) fields on the Gydan Peninsula were acquired in September 2011 and are valid until 2031.

Salmanovskoye (Utrenneye) field, located in the northern part of the Gydan Peninsula and partly in the water area Gulf of Ob in close proximity to the South Tambeyskoye field, was discovered in 1980. In terms of recoverable reserves, it is the largest of the fields discovered in this moment on the Gydan Peninsula, and consists of 34 deposits, including 16 gas, 15 gas condensate, 2 oil and gas condensate and 1 oil. The proven reserves of the field according to SEC standards as of the end of 2014 amounted to 259.8 billion cubic meters. m of gas and 9.6 million tons of liquid hydrocarbons.

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The geophysical oil and gas condensate field, located in the middle part of the Gydan Peninsula on the coast of the Gulf of Ob, was discovered in 1975 and consists of 35 deposits, including 19 gas, 12 gas condensate, 3 oil and 1 oil and gas condensate. The proven reserves of the field according to SEC standards as of the end of 2014 amounted to 125.6 billion cubic meters. m of gas and 0.4 million tons of liquid hydrocarbons.

In December 2014, Arctic LNG 1 LLC (a subsidiary of the Company) won an auction for the right to use the subsoil of the Trekhbugorny area, located on the Gydan Peninsula and bordering the Geophysical license area of the Company. The reserves of the Trekhbugorny area according to categories C1+C2 of the Russian classification amount to 5.9 billion cubic meters. m of natural gas, extractable resources exceed 1 trillion cubic meters. m of gas and 90 million tons of liquid hydrocarbons.

In 2016, NOVATEK continued full-scale geological exploration work in areas on the Gydan Peninsula in order to clarify the resource potential of this region, which is strategically important for the Company. During the period 2014-2016. A total of 5 wells were drilled at the Utrenneye field, the results of their testing allowed to increase the reserves of the field and confirm the higher productivity of the wells.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the creation of four artificial islands in the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea. According to experts, this will significantly simplify the development of mineral deposits located in this region. However, this is not the first such project in Russia. RT found out for what other purposes the new land is being created.

Four artificial islands will be created in the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea. The corresponding order was signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on June 15. The construction of new islands was entrusted to the Kola Shipyard company

On the islands themselves there will be a “Center for the Construction of Large-Capacity Offshore Structures”, where complexes for offshore mining will be created.

“The center is intended for the manufacture of offshore complexes for the production, storage and shipment of liquefied natural gas and stable gas condensate on gravity-type foundations, offshore production complexes, as well as repair and maintenance of marine equipment and equipment used for the development of offshore oil and gas condensate fields,” it is specified on Cabinet website.

Kola Shipyard is a subsidiary of Novatek, which decided to invest 25 billion rubles in the project. The project will help create about 10 thousand jobs and attract new investment to the region.

Experience available

Russia began to create artificial islands several centuries ago, both to expand territories and for military purposes. At the beginning of the 18th century, Turtle Island was built in the Sea of Azov, where the citadel was located. The island later lost its strategic importance, but today parts of it can still be seen at low tide.

And today in Russia the creation of artificial land plots is actively underway. Director of environmental programs of the Green Patrol, Roman Pukalov, noted that there are already similar successful projects in Russia. Thus, embankment dams were created in the Kerch Strait during the construction of the Crimean Bridge.

“There were similar projects, the same Tuzlinskaya spit, which goes from Taman towards Kerch - this is in many ways artificial structure. Building Kerch Bridge, the spit expanded, was replenished and modified,” explains the expert.

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Bridge over Kerch Strait will connect Crimea and Krasnodar region. It is planned that it will become the longest in Russia. Its length will be 19 km. Motorists will be able to try new bridge already in December 2018.

As RT reported, builders have already completed the assembly of the railway arch.

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In 2006, expansion of the western part began in St. Petersburg Vasilyevsky Island. The area of the new territories of the island will be about 476 hectares. The project, called "Marine Façade", is one of the largest coastal development projects in the world.

The expansion of the island has not yet been completed, but a specialized sea port which is popular among foreign tourists.

In the future, residential buildings, schools, hospitals and commercial facilities will also be built on this part of the island.

Solving many problems

As Sergei Pikin, director of the Energy Development Fund, notes, this is an important step for Russia, since at the moment there are not many similar projects in our country. In addition, according to the expert, artificial land will help simplify production natural resources, since the necessary complexes will be located on them.

“The system of constructing artificial islands is the most advantageous, because it will help solve many problems associated with infrastructure,” the expert believes.

Ecologist Roman Pukalov notes that such construction requires not only a well-thought-out project, but also an independent environmental assessment.

“The Kola Bay is a natural environment; we need to look very carefully at how the current flows through the bay itself, whether this will interfere with the movement of aquatic organisms, and when the work will be carried out in order to avoid disturbance factors during the spawning period. This all needs to be thought through very carefully,” says the ecologist.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a plan of priority measures for the creation in the Barents Sea of a Center for the construction of large-capacity offshore structures - artificial islands on which gas production, as well as the operation and repair of marine equipment, will be carried out.

“The center is intended for the manufacture of offshore complexes for the production, storage and shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and stable gas condensate on gravity-type foundations, offshore production complexes, as well as repair and maintenance of marine equipment and equipment used for the development of offshore oil and gas condensate fields,” - indicated in the message of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The document also explains that the construction of artificial land plots in the Kola Bay is necessary to accommodate the center’s facilities. Artificial land plots will be created at the expense of Kola Shipyard LLC’s own funds. The volume of capital investments for the project will amount to more than 25 billion rubles.

Kola Shipyard LLC received permission from Rosmorrechflot to create artificial land plots on a water body. The signed order of Kola Shipyard LLC determined the person with whom Rosmorrechflot will enter into an agreement on the creation of four artificial land plots in the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea,” the text explains.

In addition, the explanatory note states that the construction of the center will create about 10 thousand jobs at the shipyard itself, increase tax revenues to budgets of all levels, attract additional investment to the region, and develop new high-tech production.

The administrative address of the facility will be the village of Belokamenka in the closed administrative-territorial formation of Aleksandrovsk, Murmansk region. In addition, it recommended that the federal executive authorities, the authorities of the Murmansk region and local self-government help in reducing the time required for registering land plots for the construction of the center, as well as the time required for conducting examinations and issuing permits. Local authorities have also been asked to consider providing tax relief on taxes.

Construction in Belokamenka will be carried out as part of the Arctic LNG project, which involves the production of 16.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year. The resource base for it will be the Gydan deposits. Deputy Chairman of the Board of NOVATEK Denis Khramov previously said that together with Yamal LNG (the company’s second gas liquefaction project of similar capacity), Arctic LNG will be able to occupy about 7% of the global liquefied gas market.

In July 2015, the Russian Minister of Natural Resources wrote to the Prime Minister in which he proposed a review of existing restrictions on the access of non-state companies to the Murmansk gas field in the Barents Sea.

According to Donskoy, after the decree of the Russian President on liberalizing access to the shelf, proposals on this topic were submitted to the government for consideration, but no final decision was made. The President, who, along with Gazprom, was issued documents giving the right to explore and develop fields, previously expressed protest against the appearance of other companies on the shelf.

According to the director of Small Letters, the shelf field in Murmansk will only be effective in the form of a project focused on the export of liquefied natural gas. Currently, Rosneft and Yamal LNG have permission to export LNG.

A year earlier, it was reported that Gazprom and Rosneft received rights to two shelf areas.

In August 2014, Gazprom received the right to use the Kheisovsky subsoil plot with an area of 83,590 square meters. km located in the Barents Sea. Forecast resources for oil are 393.7 million tons (geological resources) and 118.1 million tons (recoverable resources), for gas - 2081.4 billion cubic meters. m, for condensate - 32.6 million tons (geological resources) and 22.8 million tons (recoverable resources). At the same time, Rosneft was granted the rights to use the Pritaimyrsky subsoil plot with an area of 20,619 square meters. km in the Laptev Sea. The Pritaimyrsky area has predicted geological oil resources of 348.6 million tons, recoverable resources - 104.6 million tons, gas - 362.8 billion cubic meters. m.

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