Development of Hydrocarbon Resources of the Barents Sea: Research of the Possible Impact on an Environment and Environmental Protection on the Example of the Shtokman Field Development Project

Great part of the Russian Arctic shelf mainly located in the zone with heavy ice conditions and lowly developed infrastructure. But exactly these areas are most prospective for oil and gas production. Development of these territories requires use of corresponding technologies. In conditions of the Arctic shelf it is necessary to develop complex of measures for providing of environmental safety of works at exploration and development of hydrocarbon deposits. Taking into account the scale of environmental risk at development of offshore oil and gas deposits the Law of the Russian Federation stipulates obligatory procedures of estimation of impact on an environment for this activity. However there is not enough experience of estimation of the impact on an environment at development of large offshore oil and gas projects in Arctic regions. Thus modernization of the complex scientific approach to estimation of impact on an environment appears important and actual. The objective of the thesis “Development of hydrocarbon resources of the Barents Sea: research of the possible impact on an environment and environmental protection on the example of the Shtokman Field” is working out of the rational system of environmental monitoring at realization of the first phase of complex development of the Shtokman gas and condensate deposit on the basis of generalization and system analysis. Estimation of impact and development of the complex of nature protection measures are executed on the basis of technical and technological decisions. The main question investigated by the author in this thesis is providing of environmental safety at development of hydrocarbon deposits on the Arctic shelf of Russia. Environmental problems arising at geophysical researches, drilling of wells from selfelevating floating drilling rigs, construction and operating of sea production complexes and pipelines are analyzed in this thesis. New concept of environmental safety is offered by the author. In the process of analyzing and generalization of ...