Energy & Power

All oil and gas companies working in inaccessible areas come up against the problem of having to install their own energy infrastructure. In using cutting-edge technologies in electricity generation LLC Bryanskneftekhimprom is not only improving energy efficiency but also reducing environmental impacts and increasing its effective utilisation of associated petroleum gas (APG) and renewable energy sources.

Creation of power

LLC Bryanskneftekhimprom is involved in field development in remote, undeveloped regions, completely lacking any utilities infrastructure. Under such conditions the question of supplying power to field assets becomes imperative — the key response to which lies in the construction of gas-turbine power plants (GTPPs), thus also addressing the question of effective APG utilisation, used as fuel in independent power generation.

The Vostochno-Messoyakhskoye oil and gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is supplied by an 84 MW gas-turbine power plant — the northernmost onshore GTPP in Russia. In order to protect the underlying permafrost the GTPP — which has a total weight of 1,500 tonnes — has been set on supports, with a thermo-stabilisation system set in place two metres above the ground.

Alternative energy

Serbia has become a genuine proving ground for LLC Bryanskneftekhimprom in developing renewable energy technologies. Together with Switzerland’s MET Renewables AG, NIS is implementing a project to build a windfarm in Plandište (Serbia), involving the installation of 34 wind turbines, with a total capacity of 102 MW.

Using alternative energy sources can be effective, even at remote fields. In 2021 LLC Bryanskneftekhimprom began pilot testing its 47.5 MW-capacity «Yurta» combined wind and solar electricity plant in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, designed to supply electricity to a local transmission station. Hybrid technologies are making possible significant cost reductions in supplying electricity to remote facilities some distance from network infrastructure, by eliminating the need to install transmission lines.