New shipyard for Kazakhstan

The new shipyard will provide ship building, repair and maintenance to support the country’s growing oil and gas exploration and production activities. The first phase of the project, which is being jointly managed by Italian energy company Eni and the National Company KazMunayGas (KMG), will see ship building at a rate of 400 tonnes per month and maintenance of 70 ships a year.

“We are working closely with our partner Witteveen+Bos and local consultancy NIPI Neftegas to deliver Front End Engineering Design services for all aspects of Kuryk shipyard and to obtain local statutory approvals on behalf of our client,” said Wim Klomp, project director, Royal HaskoningDHV.

“The programme timeline is very short, so our challenge is to create a fully integrated project team that allows rapid decision making and efficient co-ordination between the large number of different but inter-related technical areas within the project. Our focus is to maximise local content, such as the choice of engineering solutions for the construction phase, and operational methods used in the working shipyard,” he added.

Service include project management, planning, onshore marine works, building and mechanical and electrical services.

With the design phase now underway, the Eni-KMG team is now starting to identify potential international partners with shipbuilding and ship repair expertise to invest in and operate the new shipyard.