Feature 6 | RUSSIAN MARITIME INDUSTRIES More gas for Russian shipbuilders
Some 23 LNG carrier orders could be on the cards, with Russian yards to be the prime beneficiaries. Crisis, what crisis?
June to explore opportunities for future ships demanded by the ambitious giant. The delegation was led by Alexander Ananenkov, Gazprom deputy head of the management committee for production. The meeting focused on the prospects
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for expanding production and engineering capacities of Russian shipbuilders to fulfil Gazprom’s orders. Taking part were top managers from Russian leading shipbuilding companies, including United Shipbuilding Corporation, Admiralty Shipyards, Amur Shipbuilding Plant, Baltiysky Zavod, Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant, Zvezdochka Shiprepair Centre, Severnoye Machine-Building Enterprise (Sevmash), Severnaya Verf, and the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute Gazprom emphasised its desire to develop Russian continental shelf, as
the 5 million km2
well as the prospects for LNG production and sea-borne transportation. Te company said it was striving to maximise the engagement of domestic production capacity. Tere was an obvious lack of both production and engineering capacities to construct modern marine equipment for offshore operations, including drilling rigs and new-generation production platforms, Gazprom said. Field development offshore Russia up
to 2020 will demand over 10 drilling and production platforms, over 50 vessels and marine equipment of various types, as well as at least 23 LNG carriers, according to Gazprom, which said it would look to place the bulk of orders with domestic builders. “In order to deliver this objective, the producers should comprehensively upgrade shipbuilding companies to satisfy the demands of Gazprom as a large customer in terms of quality and quantity,” Mr Ananenkov said. Special emphasis was put on the need to
replace high-tech foreign spare parts with domestic alternatives. “It is necessary to adopt a state import
substitution programme that would embrace not only the shipbuilding, but the engine, machine, oil and gas equipment sectors as
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heavy duty delegation from Gazprom toured St Petersburg shipbuilding facilities in late
Of course I love shipbuilding.
well. This programme should encourage Russian producers to be active in equipment upgrade, certification, adoption and development of advanced technologies,” said Mr Ananenkov. The initial aggregate hydrocarbon
resources of Russia’s continental shelf average 100 billion tonnes of fuel equivalent, of which 80% is gas. The bulk of the hydrocarbon resources (around 70%) is concentrated in the Barents, Pechora and Kara Seas, with gas and condensate prevailing in the Barents and
Floating nuclear option
Baltiysky Zavod, a part of United Industrial Corporation (OPK), is in the process of building the first of eight floating nuclear power units for FNPP. The contract, signed by OPK and Concern Energoatom PLC on 27 February
2009, includes construction, launching, rebuilding and testing. Ultimately, the project envisages exploitation of a head floating power-generating unit, with two KLT-40C type reactors. According to the contract, the construction of the floating power-generating unit will be completed by the second quarter of 2012, with tests due to be complete so that the unit can enter operations in the fourth quarter of 2012. The floating power-generating plant is a non-self-propelled barge of 144m in length and 30m in width, of 21,500dwt. Regulation capacity of each reactor will be 35MW, while thermal power is given as 14Gcal.
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Kara, and oil in the Pechora Sea. Gazprom considers the Barents, Kara,
Pechora and Caspian Sea shelves, the Ob and Taz Bays offshore areas, the Okhotsk Sea shelf, including the Sakhalin Island and West Kamchatka offshore to be most promising. In Severodvinsk, Sevmash Production
Association is currently constructing the Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant stationary platform, Zvezdochka Shiprepair Centre the Arkticheskaya jack-up floating drilling rig, the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant
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