Oil and gas fields discovered at the Russian continental shelf are not yet developed but technical complexes for the first offshore production are currently under construction. Their principal element is a jack-up rig (JUR) strengthened for the Polar sea conditions. One of questions to resolve in construction of this drilling platform – the technology of its safe towing. Peculiarities of such transportation are briefly described for the offshore oil production project with jack-up rig «Arkticheskaya», which is currently under construction in the shipyard «Zvezdochka».
The idea to use the upper structure of the worked off foreign oil platform «Hutton» in construction of the newly built platform «Prirazlomnaya» should significantly abridged the time for its starting oil production. But the life cycle of any offshore construction will inevitably lead to its dismantle utilization, and the project of destruction should be planned in advance. Russian industrial enterprises haven’t any experience of dismantling and dismembering such large metallic structures profitably. Elaboration of needed technologies should be connected with a series of problems; their listing is shown in the paper.
