OREANDA-NEWS  Rosneft plans to build 13 power plants with a total installed capacity of 3.4 GW for the Vostok Oil project on Taimyr, the company said in a statement.

"Rosneft has developed a concept for energy supply to the facilities of the flagship Vostok Oil project, which provides for the construction of 13 power plants with a total installed capacity of about 3.4 GW and 21 main power centers and overhead lines with a length of 1.8 thousand km," the report says. The design of the Irkinskaya GTPP for 867 MW and the power plant in the North Bay for 214 MW is underway.

In addition, in order to provide new production facilities with energy resources by 2030, the company is considering the possibility of building power plants with a total capacity of up to 482 MW, as well as 28 110-220 kV transformer substations and electric networks with a total length of about a thousand kilometers.

Rosneft notes that it is one of the largest consumers of energy resources in the Russian Federation with a volume of electricity consumption of almost 48.5 billion kWh per year. At the same time, as part of the energy saving program, the company saved 234 thousand tons of conventional fuel or over 4.4 billion rubles in 9 months of 2022. This volume is equivalent to the production of 160 thousand tons of oil and is comparable to the annual electricity consumption of a city with a population of about 250 thousand people, the report says.