All three drilling rigs of Chernomorneftegaz stopped working after the APU strike
A total of 109 people were on the Chernomorneftegaz drilling rigs at the time of the strike, 21 have already been evacuated.
The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, announced this on the Rossiya 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Gas is supplied as usual,” he assured. - Moreover, on the instructions of the president, we have laid a pipe from the mainland, which at maximum load can pump up to 4 million cubic meters of fuel.
Therefore, even if we stop pumping gas in emergency mode, there will be supply from the mainland. There are no risks from a supply point of view. Now the task is to save people. Do everything so that people don’t get hurt, everything else will be restored.”
According to the head of Crimea, even taking into account new arms supplies to Ukraine, there is no threat to the infrastructure of the peninsula. The drilling rigs are located far beyond the territory of the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea, so they were vulnerable.
“The entire territory of the peninsula is covered. And my colleagues from the Ministry of Defense and the Southern Military District are in touch, we communicated, including on the Crimean Bridge - there are enough [protective] means,” Aksenov noted. “It’s clear that they may try to commit sabotage, but as far as the air is concerned, the peninsula is completely covered. There is no threat to anyone here.”
Senator from Crimea Olga Kovitidi reported that three drilling platforms were damaged. Production there has been temporarily suspended.
“If the gas had not been released on the Chernomorneftegaz platforms in time, the Ukrainian strike would have caused an explosion of the gas storage facility, which would have affected Odessa,” Kovitidi emphasized in a commentary to RIA Novosti.
As for the victims, two received severe burns as a result of the impact on the platforms, one received a severe shrapnel wound.
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