ECOLOGY BUSINESS-ACCENT SIBERIAN SERVICE COMPANY: TOP QUALITY OIL PRODUCTION AND RELATED SERVICES WHILE STAYING ECO FRIENDLY Anastasia Nikitina 74
<strong>Neftegaz</strong>.<strong>RU</strong> # 3/20<strong>17</strong> THE FAR NORTH IS A TERRITORY CHARACTERISED BY ITS EXTREME CLIMATE, WHILE ITS SIZE EXCEEDS THAT OF SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TOGETHER. THIS IS WHERE 20% OF THE WORLD’S OIL AND GAS COME FROM EACH YEAR. THIS IS NOT JUST <strong>RU</strong>SSIA’S VAST RAW MATERIALS BASE, BUT ALSO A KIND OF GUARANTOR OF OUR COUNTRY’S ENERGY SECURITY FOR MANY YEARS TO COME BECAUSE IT IS HERE THAT APPROXIMATELY ONE QUARTER OF THE WORLD’S HYDROCARBON RESOURCES ARE CONCENTRATED KEYWORDS: Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, drilling,Messoyakhskoye field, Siberian Service company, green technologies. ADS BUSINESS-ACCENT Well drilling is the main oil and gas exploration method, but few companies venture to operate in remote areas known for their complicated geology, especially since using sustainable technologies has become mandatory. The Siberian Service company is one of those rather few who not only drill at such complicated fields, but is also determined to avail of all possible means to minimise the negative impact on the environment. A fine example of this policy are the operations on the Messoyakha fields, in the Tazovsky District of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, in the Arctic climate zone, some 250 kilometres from the actual Arctic Circle. These are Russia’s northernmost onshore oilfields. In winter, which lasts 9 long months in these parts, temperatures go down to as low as – 50-60 degrees Celsius, with winds gusting to 40 meter per second. Endless blizzards are a major hindrance for drilling operations, and December gratifies in its own fashion with several weeks of impenetrable polar night. Summer brings challenges of its own: rotation workers have to learn to sleep “with the lights on”: the sun does not set during so-called “white nights”. All this notwithstanding, the Siberian Service company strives to ensure total safety and maximum comfortable work conditions for its employees working on the production sites. To further strengthen its leading positions among Russian service companies in terms of labour safety and a responsible attitude to the environment, the Siberian Service company seeks to ensure maximum compliance with the list of FACTS 90 % of Russian gas and oil is extracted annually in the Far North since2011 SSC successfully operates at the facilities of Messoyakhaneftegas 86 hectares area of restoration works The Company’s goal is not only to preserve the unique lands it operates on, but also to remediate them afterwards. Construction waste, corroded drilling equipment, wood rot, all here since the 1980s, are dug out, stored and, once the winter arrives, taken out to an industrial waste landfill, while the territory cleared of waste is fertilised and seeded with mixed herbs. 10 of the prospect holes have already undergone reclamation, with the area of remediation efforts totalling 86 ha!) Russian national environmental standards and corporate policy requirements. The Company complies with the requirements contained in the existing Russian laws, norms and regulations regarding industrial, labour safety and environmental protection. This is where the experience CJSC Messoyakhaneftegaz at whose facilities Siberian Service company has been successfully operating since 2011, becomes quite helpful. It is also extremely important to ensure that only state-of-the-art sustainable technologies are used in designing the Messoyakha production facilities: for example, to protect the unique soils, the entire oilfield infrastructure was built on 10-meter piers, and multiton facilities rise 1/5-2 meters above ground level. The Siberian Service company already has three integrated management system certificates under its belt. ISO 9001:2008 confirms excellent quality management; ISO 14001:2004 acknowledges that the company conforms to the international environmental management requirements; OHSAS 18001:2007 is a certificate of conformity to the international occupational health and safety. It is also worth noting that the Siberian Service company insists on compliance with all of the above labour safety and environmental protection requirements, with constant monitoring being part of its policy. 75
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