Sakhalin Energy has marked 10 years of commercial oil supplies. First cargo was exported in September 1999, heralding the birth of Sakhalin Island as a new energy hub in Asia-Pacific.

From 1999 to 2008 Sakhalin-2 produced oil seasonably from the Vityaz Production Complex centred around the Molikpaq - Russia’s first offshore oil platform. Year-round production began in December 2008 and since that time oil export is carried out from the purpose-built Prigorodnoye terminal.

Over the last 10 years the Company has exported 209 oil cargoes, mainly using Russian tankers, to energy companies and refineries in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, the USA, the Philippines, Thailand and New Zealand.