Prirazlomnoe is the first and only field on the Russian Arctic shelf where oil production is carried out. This is the only project in the world, where production in the Arctic is performed with a stationary platform.
MIKHAUL ULYANOV Arctic Shuttle Tanker uses a double-action principle in its operation –its bow and stern are of an icebreaking form, which enables the ship to move through the ice. In winter, the ship can operate without being accompanied by an icebreaker while moving through ice up to 1.2 m thick.
Stamps depict the PRIRAZLOMNAYA platform in the ice and the MIKHAIL ULYANOV tanker.
Russian Post web-site.
The PRIRAZLOMNOE platform a watercraft but without tugs she can’t move. She was built on the HUTTON TLP tension leg platform which was built in the early 1980s at the Highland Fabricator’s Nigg yard at Tain, Scotland. More info is given by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension-leg_platform
2002 The tension leg platform was bought by the Russian Rosneft and towed to Murmansk where she was dismantled, the topsides were then towed to the FSUE Sevmash military shipyard in Severodvinsk for an upgrade. In the meantime the caisson was constructed by Sevmash as a number of caisson superblocks. The yard was also responsible for the offloading complex, platform towing and the accommodation module.
Many parts of the platform were built on other Russian yards.
All was installed in 2004.
Dimension 126 by 126 metre. She has a oil storage of 136,000 cubic metre, her daily production is 19,000 cubic metre.
Accommodation for 200 persons.
August 2011 towed by one icebreaker and three supply/tugs from the Zvezdochka Shiprepairing Centre, Murmansk to the Pechora Sea were she was positioned.
On 18 September 2013, Greenpeace's ship ARCTIC SUNRISE circled the Prirazlomnaya oil rig while three crew attempted to board the platform. In response, the Russian Coast Guard seized control of the ship and detained the activists. The ship was subsequently towed by a coastguard vessel to the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk. The crew consisted of thirty members from sixteen different nationalities. The Russian government has intended to charge the Greenpeace activists with piracy, which carries a maximum penalty of fifteen years of imprisonment. It was the stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the RAINBOW WARRIOR in 1985, said Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA. The Netherlands launched legal action to free 30 Greenpeace activists charged in Russia with piracy. ARCTIC SUNRISE is a Dutch-flagged ship. Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said the Netherlands had applied to the UN's Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which resolves maritime disputes between states. The Netherlands view the ship's detention as unlawful. The ship and crew were some time later released by the Russian Government without a conviction.
December 1913 production on the platform commenced.
2015 In service, same name and working at the Prirazlomnaya oil-field.
Russia 2014 16p and MS sg?, scott? (In the margin of the MS is the same platform and tanker depict.)
Source: Wikipedia. http://www.offshore-technology.com/proj ... azlomnove/ and various other web-sites,