Rosneft announced that the participant companies of the Sakhalin-1 consortium noted that all the works for the start of the commercial oil production at the Arkutun-Dagi field were conducted in strict compliance with the approved schedule, determined technological specifications and subject to all the industrial and ecological safety legislations. Berkut platform started first oil supplies. Production output from the field at planned capacity will reach 4.5 million tones a year.

The field, located off the northeast coast of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East, will bring total daily production at Sakhalin-1 to more than 27,000 tons the other two fields – Chayvo and Odoptu – began production in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Production from Sakhalin-1's Arkutun-Dagi field will be routed through the existing Chayvo onshore processing facility on Sakhalin Island and delivered through pipelines to the De-Kastri oil export terminal located in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.