Tavrida self-elevating floating drilling rig. Archival photo MOSCOW, June 20 American commercial satellites photographed the Black Sea area, where Chernomorneftegaz drilling platforms are located, a week before the Ukrainian troops attacked the facility, correspondents of RIA Novosti found out. Thus, the Worldview-1 satellites , Worldview-2 and Worldview-3 photographed the area where the drilling platforms are located on June 11, 13 and 14, respectively. strike on Chornomorneftegaz recorded burnsThe head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, announced on Monday that the Ukrainian military had struck at the drilling platforms of Chornomorneftegaz. At the moment, it is known about the salvation of five out of 12 people, the fate of seven is being investigated. Work on the three platforms affected by the strike has been suspended, gas is being released to stop the fire. As a source in the power structures of Crimea told RIA Novosti, the blow was struck on one of the drilling platforms at the latitude of Cape Tarkhankut at a distance of up to 100 kilometers from the western Crimean coast. State Unitary Enterprise RK «Chernomorneftegaz» develops nine fields on the shelf of the Black Sea and in the waters of the Sea of Azov, as well as onshore of the Crimean Peninsula: two gas condensate fields, six gas fields and one oil field. The exploitation of the fields is carried out in accordance with the development strategy of Chernomorneftegaz and is aimed at maintaining the design levels of hydrocarbon production from gas, gas condensate and oil fields, according to the company's website. jpg» />»Shells, raids, terrorist attacks»: how the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to attack Russia
