LUKOIL BRINGS PLATFORM TOPSIDE TO THE CASPIAN SEA
Thursday, April 13, 2017
LUKOIL commenced transportation of the topside of a fixed offshore
ice-resistant platform (LSP-2), intended for Phase 2 of Vladimir Filanovsky
field in the Caspian Sea.
A tugboat caravan will tow the topside, weighing over seven thousand
tonnes, towards its destination in the Caspian Sea. The substructures of the
platform were brought to the sea and installed in the summer of 2016.
Phase 2 of Vladimir Filanovsky field development provides for the
construction of a fixed ice-resistant platform, an accommodation-topside platform
and a crossover between the platforms, all being built at Astrakhan’s shipyards.
The launch of the facilities of the second phase of development at V.
Filanovsky field is to be completed by the end of 2017.
All the offshore facilities at LUKOIL’s Caspian fields were manufactured at shipyards in Russia.