It includes four blocks (East-Odoptu, Ayashsky, Veninsky and Kirinsky) containing 5.1 billion barrels (810×10^6 m3) of crude oil and 46 trillion cubic feet (1.3×10^12 m3) of natural gas.
[3] It has oil reserves of 1.2 billion barrels (190×10^6 m3) and 9.1 trillion cubic feet (260×10^9 m3) of natural gas.
Kirinsky field is located 28 kilometres (17 mi) offshore Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk in water depths of approximately 90 metres (300 ft).
[7] Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil, and Rosneft got the licence to operate Sakhalin-3 under a production sharing agreement granted in 1993.
[8] In June 2009, Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin invited Royal Dutch Shell to participate in the Sakhalin-3 project.