Sakhalin Energy continues to perform planned maintenance activities at Sakhalin-2 production assets.
Early August, the company commenced a seasonal turnaround campaign at the Molikpaq offshore oil and gas platform.
Over 300 people, including about 160 maintenance contractor personnel, will be involved in this effort. In addition to multiphase separation equipment clean-up and purging, they will carry out regular turbine inspections, upgrade the platform’s control and safety systems, replace some pipe sections and other equipment. In addition, a tube bundle in one of the platform’s heat exchangers will be replaced with a special-order titanium version. The replacement bundle will soon be delivered to Sakhalin Island and then shipped to the platform.
Roman Dashkov, Sakhalin Energy’s Chief Executive Officer, pointed out that this shutdown is an integral part of company operations. “We have already successfully completed the integrated gas system turnaround campaign and are now commencing maintenance operations at our oil production platforms. Our delivery schedules have been agreed with the customers to fully reflect these activities. Despite pandemic-related challenges, all of them are proceeding per schedule.”
The maintenance and inspection activities will take a month to complete. After that, the platform will be fully restarted.