Gazprom plans to start gas production this year from the Kirinskoye gas/condensate field offshore Sakhalin Island, under the Sakhalin III project.

Construction is under way on offshore oil and gas facilities for Lukoil’s V. Filanovsky field in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.

Lukoil has ordered a riser platform and residential module platform for installation at the northern Caspian Sea’s Vladimir Filanovsky oil field in 2012-14.

The ice-resistant stationary platform for Gazprom’s Neftshelf’s Prirazlomnoye field development in the Pechora Sea offshore Russia in the Arctic has reached its location, 60 km (37 mi) offshore.

Tow is underway of an ice-resistant platform to Gazprom neft’s Prirazlomnoye field in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea.

The ice-resistant fixed platform for Gazprom’s Prirazlomnoye field off northern Russia is nearing completion.

Gazprom plans to drill two gas production wells this year on the Kirinskoye field, 28 km (17.4 mi) offshore Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Engineering, design, construction, and installation of offshore production systems will continue to increase as the number of offshore installations increases worldwide.

Gazprom and Ukraine’s government have agreed to form a joint venture for development of the Palasa structure in the Black Sea.