Sakhalin Energy Investment Co., manager of the Sakhalin II project, has taken special precautions with pipeline crossings of fault areas to insure safety.
In a description of the project and the technology used, SEIC said the pipelines were designed to stringent criteria enabling them to withstand a ground rupture caused only by a very significant earthquake. Crossing 19 active seismic faults during the installation of Sakhalin Energy’s onshore pipelines presents extraordinary challenges. Five of the fault crossings have already been completed successfully, Sakhalin Energy said.

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Anna Petyuk, from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, works in business support services for CH2MHill in Anchorage, Alaska. Petyuk is currently finishing her master’s of business administration at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She has already completed a bachelor’s degree in finance at UAA.

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Sergey Vilyamov, Sakhalin Oblast vice-governor, presided over meetings with OAO Gazprom’s delegation members. A group of Gazprom representatives spent several days in Sakhalin Oblast reviewing the opportunities of region’s gasification program under a cooperative agreement signed between OAO Gazprom and Sakhalin Oblast Administration in 2006.

Vera Tikhonkikh, deputy head of Oblast Housing Department, and Yuri Antonov, the head of delegation and head of regions communication department of OAO Regiongasholding, participated at the meeting

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Sakhalin I has produced more than 100 million barrels to date and is currently producing at 230,000 barrels per day from the Chayvo field, an ExxonMobil spokeswoman told the Alaska Journal of Commerce.

That is down from the peak rate of 250,000 barrels a day achieved in February 2007. Operations have had a 95 percent reliability, the spokeswoman said.

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Greetings from our staff here at Morris Communications and the Alaska Journal of Commerce in Anchorage, Alaska.

We are proud to bring you the latest quarterly briefing of the Pacific Russia report.

The gaze of the world has turned to the Sakhalin

region as a leading component in gaining valuable resources for our industries and livelihoods. It is our pleasure to partner in this endeavor as we facilitate the flow of information as it pertains to the production of natural resources with the Sakhalin projects.

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