The North (digital substation in the Arctic)

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2020: Start of the Arctic's first digital substation North

At the end of December, 2020 Russia started the Arctic's first digital substation. It is about the main power unit of a northern part of the Novoportovsky field in which development "subsidiary" of Gazprom Neft — Gazprom Neft-Yamal is engaged.

Construction the object which received the name "North" it was conducted within the national Ministry of Energy Russia power engineering specialists project "Development and Deployment of Digital Electric Substations and Stations on Again Under Construction and Reconstructed Objects".

Russia started the Arctic's first digital substation North

As told in Gazprom Neft, the Arctic's first digital electric unit was designed under extreme climatic conditions of the region:

• the transmission format of signals provides the maximum process automation of measurement, management and protection of the equipment;
• monitoring of functioning of all systems is conducted far off from the central dispatching office located in 26 km from new substation;
• automated management allows to minimize time spent for basic transactions in use and to reduce influence of a human factor on production process;
• intelligent systems of management and diagnostics for service of an object allow to reduce the number of personnel to a minimum.

By December 25, 2020 the digital substation already supplies with energy two remote drilling rigs. In January 2021st substations the first well pad will be connected. Afterwards North will supply with the electric power all production and social facilities of a perspective zone of development of the Yamal asset of Gazprom Neft.

According to the CEO of Gazprom Neft-Yamal company Alexey Ovechkin, application of an intelligent system of electrification in the conditions of autonomy — a key to implementation of new projects in the Arctic and to start of remote fields.^[1]

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