Lukoil may postpone the launch of the Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea

The launch of a Lukoil’s large field in the Caspian Sea may be postponed to the end of 2016 because of the slow construction of an offshore platform by the United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK). The production drilling of the Filanovsky field, which was discovered in 2005, was planned to be started in 2014 and the oil production in 2015, Kommersant reports, referring to its sources who are familiar with the letter of the Lukoil’s Head, Vagit Alekperov to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

According to the edition, at the end of October, Alekperov applied to the President with a request to order OSK and the Government to speed up the construction of the offshore platform, which will provide the production in the Caspian Sea, in time. According to the newspaper’s source, Putin entrusted the Chief of the Presidential Administration, Sergei Ivanov to look into the situation.