Kravtsovskoye oilfield

Kravtsovskoye oilfield
Country	Russia
Region	Kaliningrad Oblast
Location	Baltic Sea
Block(s)	D-6
Offshore/onshore	offshore
Operator(s)	Lukoil-Kaliningradmorneft
Partners	Lukoil
Field history
Discovery	1983
Start of production	2004
Production
Estimated oil in place	66.4 million barrels (~9.06×10^6 t)
Estimated oil in place (million tonnes)	9.1

The Kravtsovskoye oilfield is located within block D-6 in the coastal waters of the Baltic Sea, about 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast.^[1] The deposit was opened in 1983 and extraction began in 2004.^[1] The extraction operation is conducted by Lukoil.^[1] Recoverable oil in the field is estimated at 9.1 million tonnes.^[1] The surrounding waters are about 30 metres (98 ft) deep.^[2]

The field is developed with two platforms which were installed by using a Stanislav Yudin crane vessel.^[3] The firms involved in the field's infrastructure construction included Corall Central Design Bureau, Kaliningradmorneft, Krein-Shelf, Germanischer Lloyd, Gosgortekhnadzor, Siemens, and HRI Oilfield, L.P.^[4] Produced oil and associated gas is transported by a 47-kilometre (29 mi) underwater pipeline to the Romanovo oil-gathering unit. Crude oil is exported through the Izhevsky oil terminal.^[5]

Due to its proximity to the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage site lying within both Lithuania and the Oblast, concerns over the environmental impact of a spill at the site have been raised.^[1] During the 2000s the two states agreed to a joint environmental impact assessment of the D-6 project, including plans for oil spill mitigation.^[6] The assessment and mitigation project had not been completed as of 2010.^[6]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "HELCOM Secretariat delegation visits Lukoil's Kravtsovskoye (D-6) oilfield". Helsinki Commission Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission. 2004-05-10. http://www.helcom.fi/press_office/news_helcom/en_GB/visit_to_Lukoil/. Retrieved 2010-06-15. 
2. ^ Jonathan I. Charney, American Society of International Law (2002). International Maritime Boundaries, Volume 4. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 3062. ISBN 9789041119544. http://books.google.com/books?id=4EOcBE6VIikC&pg=PA3062&lpg=PA3062&dq=Kravtsovskoye+(D-6)+oilfield+depth&source=bl&ots=AU81Holzic&sig=wAcmD27SkqXwIkKHApt3HTdOVWk&hl=en&ei=TJoXTNyCINnpnQeVjMTHCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
3. ^ Terdre, Nick (2003-08-01). "Lukoil/Seaway progressing first Russian Baltic project". Offshore Magazine (PennWell Corporation) 63 (8). http://www.offshore-mag.com/index/article-display/185471/articles/offshore/volume-63/issue-8/european-technology/lukoil-seaway-progressing-first-russian-baltic-project.html. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
4. ^ "Lukoil's Kravtsovskoye (D-6) Oil Field, Russia". Offshore-Technology. Net Resources International. http://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/Kravtsovskoye/. Retrieved 2010-06-15. 
5. ^ "Lukoil starts development drilling at Kravtsovskoye (D-6) field in the Baltic Sea" (Press release). Lukoil. 2004-03-03. http://www.lukoil.com/press.asp?div_id=1&id=2203. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "32COM 7B.98 - Curonian Spit (Lithuania / Russian Federation) (C 994)". UNESCO World Heritage Committee. http://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/1705. Retrieved 2010-06-15.