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Sakhalin Output To Fall 44% in 2022

OIL

Oil production at Russian island of Sakhalin is expected to fall by 44% this year versus the year prior to around 9mn t, according to Interfax.

  • Oil output at Skhalin fell after Exxon Mobil exited operations. Sakhalin 1 nearly stopped oil production by mid-May.
  • Sakhalin 1 output recovered in November to 137.8kbpd, compared with 19.kbpd in October.
  • Alexei Uspensky, Sakhalin’s minister for economic development, said oil output was 320kbpd (16mn t) in 2021.
  • In 2023 - 2025 the output will reach 14mn t/yr which is 57% more than in 2022, he said.
  • Japan, as part of the G7, implemented a price cap on Russian crude oil exports on 5 Dec but crude oil imported from the Sakhalin-2 plant will be excluded.

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