OREANDA-NEWS. July 06, 2010. The city of Salekhard hosted the workshop themed “Crucial issues of hydrocarbon fields development on the Yamal Peninsula and in the adjacent offshore areas” and arranged pursuant to the Sci-Tech Cooperation Agreement between Gazprom and the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO) Administration.

The workshop addressed the implementation of the Agreement and the Sci-Tech Cooperation Program for Gazprom and the YaNAO Administration over 2010 to 2012.

Yamal is a strategically important oil and gas bearing province of Russia. Commercial development of the Peninsula and the adjacent offshore areas has a fundamental significance for ensuring the country’s energy security in the long run.

The workshop participants heard and addressed over 30 speeches. It was emphasized that Gazprom’s operations on Yamal could serve as a vivid example of adopting unique domestic technologies and equipment in large-scale production projects. These include the world’s unparalleled domestically-produced pipes resisting the pressure of 120 Ata, the unique Yuribey River bridge crossing, advanced thermal stabilization technologies for permafrost soils and other innovative solutions. Scientific support of the Yamal megaproject is a prioritized area of the interaction between Gazprom and the YaNAO Administration.

The workshop placed an emphasis on improving the efficiency of gas and gas condensate fields development on the Peninsula, as well as on applying new well construction technologies both onshore and in shallow waters.