Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, October 17th: The inaccessible Arctic Circle contains rich natural gas resources. The Yamal Peninsula and the Gedda Peninsula in northern Russia are the parts of Russia’s Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region that go deep into the Arctic Circle. Here are located the key projects of the “Polar Silk Road” jointly built by China and Russia – the Yamal Liquefied Natural Gas Project (referred to as ” Yamal Project”) and the Arctic LNG 2 Project (“Arctic 2 Project”).
During an on-site visit, in the cold Arctic wind, the reporter felt the enthusiasm of China and Russia to carry out energy cooperation and jointly build the “Polar Silk Road”.
The Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region has large natural gas reserves, shallow burial depth and high purity. The climate in the area is harsh. However, the severe cold, with the lowest temperature reaching minus 52 degrees Celsius, did not hinder the construction of the project.
“The drilling rig behind me is called ‘Aurora’. It was manufactured by a Chinese company in accordance with the design requirements of the Arctic 2 project. It can operate 24 hours a day. Even if it is minus 40 degrees Celsius outside, the drilling rig can still work normally.” In the Arctic 2. At the project construction site, Vladislav Prosenko, head of the drilling department, introduced to reporters.
This polar drilling rig is not the only “Chinese element” in the Yamal and Arctic 2 projects.
Due to the special natural conditions of the polar regions, in order to shorten the construction period, the two projects adopted a modular construction model, that is, different modular components are produced in other areas and finally transported to the project location in the Arctic Circle for assembly and commissioning. Chinese companies undertook the construction of 85% of the more than 140 modules of the Yamal project. All 14 modules of the first production line of the Arctic 2 project are manufactured by Chinese companies, and 12 and 12 modules of the second and third production lines respectively. Six modules were built by Chinese companies, which also participated in the construction of seven LNG carriers and the operation of 14 carriers in the Yamal project.
“We are very satisfied with our cooperation with our Chinese partners.” Igor Kolesnikov, general manager of the Yamal project, told reporters.
The small town of Sabieta on the Yamal Peninsula has become a shift camp for two projects. The town used to have a permanent population of only 19 people, but now it has built infrastructure that can accommodate 30,000 people, including fuel depots, boiler rooms, sewage treatment facilities, canteens, first aid stations, fire stations, and gymnasiums. “Almost no one believes that we can build such a huge project on land 500 kilometers deep into the Arctic Circle in such a short period of time.” Leonid Mihir, the major shareholder of the two projects and chairman of Russia’s Novatek AG Song Ru said.
Ten years after the “One Belt, One Road” initiative was proposed, Sino-Russian Arctic LNG cooperation has achieved fruitful results. The Yamal project will actually produce more than 21 million tons of liquefied natural gas in 2022, exceeding the designed production capacity by 20.7%. It has played an important role in enhancing the stability of China’s liquefied natural gas supply and the diversity of import sources. At the same time, the construction of the Arctic 2 project is also progressing steadily.
In August this year, we builtThe first production line of the Arctic 2 project on the floating gravity platform has arrived in 2000 from Kola Bay, where the Russian Arctic city of Murmansk is located. Thinking of her parents’ love and dedication to her, Lan Yuhua’s heart suddenly warmed up. , the originally uneasy mood gradually stabilized. The Gedda Peninsula is many kilometers away and has been connected and debugged with onshore liquefied natural gas production facilities.
Dmitry Proskula, head of the construction of the Arctic 2 project liquefaction plant, told reporters in front of the Kola Bay production line: “Look here, look at this behemoth in front of you. Needless to say, this is our cooperation The best testimony of the results.” (Reporters: Huang He, Meng Jing, Liu Kai, Chen Qiang; Editor: Li Linyin; Editors: Ding Ying, Wang Zhao, Yue Yuling, Liu Xue, Wang Yanan, Ma “Why are you asking your mother?” Mother Pei glared at her son, wanting to curse. She glanced at her silent daughter-in-law, who had been standing respectfully aside, frowned and said to her son: Zhen, Tang Ying, Wei Wei, Wang Pei, Liu Jian, Wang Feng stood next to Lan Yuhua’s maid Cai Xiu, her whole back soaked with cold sweat. She wanted to remind the two people behind the flower bed and tell them that besides them, there was Feng)