{"id":7470,"date":"2016-01-25T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:02:04","slug":"jan25-boyko-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/jan25-boyko-crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Boyko Drilling Rigs’ Were Found Thanks to Tugboat’s Tracks And Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our previous article dedicated to the “Boyko’s drilling rigs”<\/a>, volunteers of the InformNapalm community\u00a0described how, according to the\u00a0State Border Guard Service of Ukraine from December 15, Russia moved \u2018Petro Hodovanets\u2019 and \u2018Ukraina\u2019 jack-up drilling rigs\u00a0from the zone of Odessa natural gas field. Kyiv court arrested this property and referred in its decision from December 23, 2015, to the media’s statements about the rigs withdrawal. It means that at the time of the court’s decision there was no information about the exact location of these jack-up rigs.<\/p>\n

After the\u00a0publication of our material, the experts who monitored the maritime\u00a0traffic near the shores of the annexed Crimean peninsula shared additional data relating to the withdrawal of the Ukrainian rigs.<\/p>\n

Andrii Klymenko<\/a>, an expert and chairman of supervisory council of the ‘Maidan of Foreign Affairs’ organization and the chief editor of ‘BlackSeaNews’ website, commented on the situation as follows:<\/p>\n

\"im_about2\"<\/a>“The events took place a week before the information about the rigs relocation was announced by the State Border Guard Service – not on December 14-15 but on December 7-8, 2015. Before the “Boyko’s rigs” were moved closer to the Crimea, the Russians installed at the Odesa gas field an old ‘Tavrida’ rig, which was towed from the Olenivka village (Chernomorsk raion, North-West of Crimea) where the technological base of the stolen ‘ChernomorNefteGazis’ is located. The towing operation was done with the help of 2 latest offshore ships ‘Fedor Uriupin’ and ‘Mys Tarkhankut’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gas fields map<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Having set up ‘Tavrida’ rig, they towed\u00a0away the\u00a0\u2018Petro Hodovanets\u2019 and \u2018Ukraina\u2019 drilling platforms and brought it to ‘Holitsyn’ gas field (which has almost the same structure as the explored ‘Gordievich’ deposit , located at greater depths) on December 8.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the last month the rigs had their\u00a0Automatic Identification System units switched off. But recently ‘Ukraina’ jack-up rig switched its\u00a0transponder on and appeared at the supposed place – in\u00a0the 12-mile zone of territorial waters of Ukraine, adjacent to the Crimean peninsula”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ukraine bought the\u00a0‘Fedor Uriupin’ and ‘Mys Tarkhankut’ tugboats together with the new rigs.<\/p>\n

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‘Fedor Uriupin’ tugboat. Background information:<\/strong><\/p>\n