Gazprom Starts Third Bovanenkovo Train

Integrated Russian monopoly, Gazprom, has started operations at the third production unit of the Bovanenkovo field, increasing output capacity to 115bn m³/yr, it said December 5. The 4.9 trillion m³ field is under the Yamal Peninsula in Russia's far north. Gazprom's CEO, Alexei Miller, said that the field would produce gas for more than a century.

The capital expenditure for launching the whole project came to rubles 2 trillion ($30bn based on current rates).

The third unit of Bovanenkovo is connected to the 970 km Ukhta – Torzhok 2 gas trunkline, which can deliver gas to both the domestic market and North Stream 2, the latter being expected to become operational late 2019. Yamal’s biggest field, Bovanenkovo, started gas flow from first unit in 2012 and the second unit started up in 2014.

Bovanenko flows

Source: Gazprom

The field is to see gas extraction ramped up to 140bn m³/yr through the development of Neocomian-Jurassic deposits in 2020s.

Gazprom produced 451.1bn (Russian) m³ of gas in the first 11 months of the year, which is 5.8% or 24.7bn m³ more than it did in the same period last year.