Another tanker for the Prirazlomnoe oil field
The Admiralty Yard in Sankt Petersburg has started the construction of another ice-protected tanker to be used in the Prirazlomnoe project, Russia’s first offshore oil field in the Barents Sea.
The tanker named “Kirill Lavrov” will be handed over to shipping major Sovkomflot in the course of 2009, Rbc.ru reports. The tanker will be the sister ship of the “Mikhail Ulyanov” which was put on the water and handed over to Sovkomflot on 31 October this year. The ship is capable of breaking through 1,2 meter thick ice with a three knot speed. The ship is designed by the Admiralty Yard together with Finnish partners. Production start-up at Prirazlomnoe has undergone several postponements. It is now expected that the Gazprom-operated project will be in production in the course of 2011. The field located in the ice-covered Pechora Sea will be Russia’s first offshore oil field in production in the High North. The field is located 60 km off the Nenents AO coast on 20 meter depths. Sovkomflot is Russia’s biggest shipping company with its 119 vessels and joint freight capacity of 9,16 million tons.
