PAO Sovcomflot Lays Keel for New Supply Vessel
Arctech Helsinki Shipyards Oy (part of United Shipbuilding Corporation) held a keel laying ceremony last week (17 December) for a new icebreaking platform supply vessel ordered by PAO Sovcomflot under a long-term agreement with Sakhalin Energy.
Originally signed in April 2014 following an international tender held by Sakhalin Energy, the agreement provides for the operation of one multifunctional icebreaking platform supply vessel (ice class Ice-15) and three ice class platform supply vessels for 20 years under the Sakhalin-2 Project.
The vessels are designed for year-round delivery of personnel, supplies and consumables to oil and gas production platforms in the Piltun-Astokhskoye and Lunskoye fields located in the Okhotsk Sea. In an emergency, the vessels will implement a full set of measures to protect the environment and provide safety support for the staff of the platforms.
Vyborg Shipyards (VS), where hull structures of the supply and support vessels are built, will act as subcontractor under the shipbuilding contract signed with Arctech Shipyards. This order will assure a high level of capacity utilization for the Russian enterprise until 2016.
Speaking at the keel laying ceremony, Evgeny Ambrosov, Senior Executive Vice President of PAO Sovcomflot, said: “The construction of supply and support vessels for the Sakhalin-2 Project represents a continuation of our mutually beneficial partnership with United Shipbuilding Corporation, which specializes in building technically sophisticated vessels for servicing oil and gas fields on the continental shelf. The vessel currently under construction is an addition to a series of completed and successfully operating icebreaking supply vessels, modified in line with specific characteristics of the Sakhalin-2 project.”
Technical specifications of the icebreaking supply vessel:
- Deadweight (t): 3,000.00
- Ice class - Ice 15
- Length (m): 104.20
- Width (m): 23.90
- Loaded draft (m): 7.90
- Operating speed (knots): 16.00
