OREANDA-NEWS. October 13, 2011. LUKOIL specialists participated in the international complex maneuvers Caspian Sea – 2011.

The maneuvers were held in the vicinity of the fixed offshore ice-resistant platform at Yuri Korchagin field and at the self-elevating semisubmersible drilling rig Astra involved in prospect drilling at Sarmatskaya area.

The purpose of the exercise was to train the response of both the personnel and special forces to emergencies like a collision of a tanker with another vessel close to the platform or a regional-significance oil spill during prospect drilling.

Taking part in the exercise were rescue teams from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

All manpower and resources involved the maneuvers demonstrated a high degree of coordination and interaction. The exercise also showed that there were sufficient supplies and materials needed to promptly mitigate the potential consequences of emergencies related to exploration and extraction of hydrocarbon reserves in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.