Lukoil has launched the jacket of a living quarters platform from the yard to the Caspian Sea, advancing facilities construction for Valery Grayfer field. The facility is designed to accommodate 155 people. Installation of the topside of the living quarters platform is scheduled for 2021. Commercial oil production from Valery Grayfer field is planned for 2022 at a design rate of 1.2 million tonnes/year.
Valery Grayfer (former Rakushechnoye) field, discovered in 2001, lies 160 km from the port of Astrakhan, 100 km from the western cost, and 8.5 km from V. Filanovsky field.
Development of V. Filanovsky and Yury Korchagin fields continues with accumulated production from the projects nearing 30 million tonnes. Production on V. Filanovsky field involves three phases of facilities, including a wellhead platform with minimal personnel involvement.
Drilling of single-bore horizontal gas injection well #102 has been completed on the ice-resistant fixed platform.
The field was discovered in 2005 and became the largest discovery made in Russia over the past 25 years. Commercial production on began in 2016.
Drilling is in progress on Phase 2 facilities of Yury Korchagin field to unlock reserves in the eastern part of the field as well as additional drilling on Phase 1 facilities. The first producing well reached Callovian deposits.
Yury Korchagin field was discovered in 2000 and put in operation in 2010 to become Lukoil’s first producing project in the Caspian Sea.
