Messoyakha Oil and Gas Fields

Summary Information

• Operator: Gazprom Neft
• Country: Russia
• Location: Gydan Peninsula in the Taz region of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area
• Production start: Expected 2016
• Partners:
• Type: Oil & Gas
• Estimated Reserves: Proven C1 and C2 reserves indicate 475 million tonnes of oil and gas condensate, as well as more than 170 billion cubic metres of gas
• Production Volume:

+++ Description

• The group of Messoyakha (Messoyakh) fields includes the East and West Messoyakha sites
• The fields were discovered in the 1980s and are the northernmost of the known Russian oil fields located onshore
• The development will include a central collection point, gas turbine power plant, approximately 100 km of oil pipeline, and a commercial metering point and custody transfer station at the main Zapolyarye-Purpe Oil Pipeline

+++ Contractors

• **Spetsgazavtotrans / Velesstroy:** Pipeline construction

+++ History

• 2011 -Gazprom Neft and TNK-BP agreed to acquire stakes in the field
• 2012 - First oil was been produced by the pilot project
• 2014 - Contracts awarded for pipeline

+++ Geology

+++ Links

1. Gazprom Neft and TNK-BP agreed to acquire stakes in CJSC Messoyakhaneftegaz
2. First Messoyakha Oil Produced
3. Preparations for construction of infrastructure begin at Messoyakha fields
4. Gazprom Neft confirms contractors for Messoyakh fields
5. Pipeline construction begins at Messoyakha fields
6. [ First production Well Successfully Built at the East-Messoyakha Field]