Gasification will affect even the Kuriles
The Sakhalin Oil and Gas Conference opened on September 30 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk with the status of the Far Eastern Energy Forum.
More than 80 leading experts and representatives of the oil and gas industry, both domestic and foreign, will speak during the event. For this, experts from Japan, Great Britain and China arrived on the island.
Many questions will touch upon modern technologies in the production of hydrocarbons and the formation of a platform for the development of the energy of the future on Sakhalin.
Deputy Chairman of the regional government Vladimir Sidorenko told Interfax that a number of documents important for the development of the region will be signed, including the gasification program for 2021-2025. According to it, the entire region will be supplied with gas, including the Kuril Islands.
“It contains the principle – wherever we cannot reach with the pipe, we will use liquefied or compressed gas,” the government spokesman said.
They will also discuss issues of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and gas monetization in the Far East region.
It also became known that gas production at the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye field of Gazprom will amount to 19.2 billion cubic meters by 2035. This was announced by Alexandra Gladkova, Director of the Oil and Gas Production and Transportation Department of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.
Production will be launched in 2023 and will initially amount to 0.8 billion cubic meters. By 2030, it is planned to increase the volume to 15.4 billion.
The aggregate production at the Sakhalin-3 project of Gazprom in 2035 will amount to 26.9 billion, Gladkova said.
The Yuzhno-Kirinskoye gas condensate field of the Sakhalin-3 project was discovered in 2010, but in 2015 came under US sanctions. In October 2019, Gazprom announced that in 2020 it plans to complete the design and start the field development.