The Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Pipeline System:
A View from Inside
October 5, 2007
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Tyumen
Oblast
RUSSIA
Yakutia
Talakanskoye
Yamal
Verkhne
-Chonskoye
Kovykta
Irkutsk
Oblast
KA ZA K H S TA N
TURKEY
C H IN A
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PA
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UKRAINE
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
billions of tons
Demand for Oil in the Asia-Pacific Region
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Russian Oil
2000
2010
2020
2030
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
• The Energy Strategy of Russia envisions creating an Eastern
Siberian oil export route, which would promote the formation of a
new oil production center in Eastern Siberia and Russia’s entry into
the Asia-Pacific energy market.
• In December 2005, within the framework of the strategy’s
realization, the Government of Russia adopted a resolution for
construction of the ESPO.
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Goals:
• To diversify markets and directions for oil and gas supplies
• To develop hydrocarbon accumulations
• To expand the oil and gas industry
• To develop territories of the Russian Federation
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Urengoy
RUSSIA
Magadan
Yakutsk
Okhotskoye Sea
Surgut
Yurubchenskoye
Tynda
Krasnoyarsk
Khabarovsk
Chita
Angarsk
Irkutsk
Blagoveshensk
Ulan-Ude
Vladivostok
Japan Sea
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Novosibirsk
Taishet
A
Tomsk
K
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Omsk
Komsomolsk
-na-Amure
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CHINA
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
RUSSIA
Yakutsk
Lensk
Sakhalin Island
Nerungri
Vitim
Ust-Ilimsk
Skovorodino
na
Bratsk
Komsomolsk
-na-Amure
Le
Taishet
Tynda
Khabarovsk
Angarsk
Chita
Blagoveshensk
Ulan-Ude
Irkutsk
Vladivostok
MONGOLIA
Nakhodka
CHINA
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Yakutsk
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na
Kuyumba
Lensk
Verhnechonskoye
Sakhalin Island
Nerungri
Vitim
Angara
Ust-Ilinsk
Skovorodino
na
Bratsk
Angarsk
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al
La
ke
Le
Taishet
Komsomolsk
-na-Amure
Tynda
Chita
Blagoveshensk
Ulan-Ude
Irkutsk
Vladivostok
Nakhodka
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
First phase – Taishet-Skovorodino:
•Length – 2,750 km
•Swampland – 435 km
•Rockbed – 1,000 km
•Permafrost
•Rockslide
•Tectonic faults
•Ice hillocks
•Thermokarst
•Landslides
•Temperatures to -50C to -55C
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Distinctive features of the project:
• Seismicity – to 9 points
• Tectonic faults
• Inclines and declivities of more
than 20 degrees
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Technical demands:
•Special steel
•Automated welding
•Duplicate and repeated controls
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Obstacles in the project:
•Unoccupied territory
•Transportation inaccessibility
•Absence of inert materials
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Lensk
Olekminsk
Kirensk
Tynda
Ust-Kut
Taishet
Skovorodino
•Total: 318 kilometers in an annual program of 1,200 kilometers
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
• Trench development during preliminary ripping operations
using explosives
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
• Stroytransgaz certificate of
compliance with
Transcert standards
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
• Number of workers
• Basic construction equipment (items)
welding tractors
pipe carriers and dump trucks
pipe-welding stations BTS-142
CRC-Evans AW welding complexes
• Innershields
• STT heads
• M-300 heads
• Electric welders
2,500
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400
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Construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline
Natural preservation methods:
•Utilization of waste material
•Recultivation
•Technical monitoring
•Use of particularly durable pipe
•Reduction of distance between valves
•Installation of sensors for early discovery of oil leaks
•Use of pipe with 16 mm - 24 mm wall thickness
•Use of pipe with 22 mm - 27 mm wall thickness for underwater
passage
•Creation of an emergency unit
•Professional training of personnel
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CONCLUSIONS
1. Construction of the ESPO will enable Russia to
diversify its hydrocarbon streams and promote
industrial expansion in Eastern Siberia.
2. The project has no analogy in industrial practice
worldwide.
3. Construction of the ESPO is being carried out in
full compliance with Russia’s environmental
legislation and under conditions of heightened
attention from governmental bodies charged with
environmental control, community
environmentalists, and international
environmental auditors.
4. Stroytransgaz is constructing the most complicated
segments of the ESPO. They make up about 30% of
the total annual startup of the facility.
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