Our Arctic Neighbors: Shipyard completing ice-class oil tanker - November 09, 2008

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryNovember 2008

Vol. 13, No. 45

Week of November 09, 2008

Our Arctic Neighbors: Shipyard completing ice-class oil tanker

A new Russian ice-class oil tanker, the Mikhail Ulyanov, has been moved from a dry dock to a wet dock for the final stages of construction work, RIA Novosti reported Oct. 13. The 70,000-ton tanker is one of two that St. Petersburg’s Admiralty Shipyard is building for Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipping company. They will be used to ship oil from the Prirazlomnoye oil field in the Pechora Sea, operated by Gazprom subsidiary Sevmorneftegaz, to terminal facilities outside Murmansk.

Construction of the second tanker, the Kirill Lavrov, will begin Nov. 10, according to Sovcomflot. The Mikhail Ulyanov, which is 853 feet long, is capable of breaking through 3.9-foot-thick ice at a speed of 3 knots.

Production startup at Prirazlomnoye has been delayed several times and is now scheduled for 2011.

—Sarah Hurst

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