Services: As-Built Documentation
Period: February 2023 — December 2023
Client: LLC “SMNM-VIKO”, engineering and construction company
General Contractor: Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd
The “Molikpak” platform is the first ice-class offshore production and drilling platform in Russia, installed on the shelf of the Sea of Okhotsk as part of the “Sakhalin-2” project.
“Sakhalin-2” is a project for the development of the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil and Lunskoye gas condensate fields in the Sea of Okhotsk on the shelf of Sakhalin Island, located in the Russian Far East. The project has been underway since 1994 under a production sharing agreement. In 2022, about 60% of the liquefied gas produced was destined for Japan. The participants of the Sakhalin-2 project include Gazprom, and the Japanese companies Mitsui and Mitsubishi. It is also planned that NOVATEK will join the shareholders, replacing the exited Shell.
Platform width: 120 meters
Weight: over 37,500 tons
“Molikpak” is a modernized ice-class drilling platform. The name “Molikpak” means “big wave” in the language of the Eskimos of northern Canada, where this platform was previously based (in the Beaufort Sea). In 1998, a 15-meter intermediate steel foundation was added to the base of the “Molikpak” platform to install it in deeper waters near Sakhalin Island.
