A foundation-laying ceremony for an ice-resistant platform (ICP) of Gazprom, took place last month at the shipyard of Southern Shipbuilding and Repair Center (part of United Shipbuilding Corporation) in the Astrakhan Region.
The Kamennomysskoye-Sea gas field is located in the Ob Bay of the Kara Sea, with gas reserves amounted to some 555 billion cubic meters.
Production operations are due to commence in 2025, with a design output (for Cenomanian deposits) of 15 billion cubic meters per year.
Moreover, the field is situated in a marine environment characterized by low temperatures (up to minus 60 degrees Celsius), heavy storms, shallow depths (5–12 meters), and thick and dense freshwater ice.
The development of this field will become the first shelf project in the world to be implemented in such extreme ice and climate conditions.
The special ice-resistant platform will be more than 135 meters long, 69 meters wide, 41 meters tall from the base to the helicopter pad, and its weight will exceed 40,000 tons in total.