Arctech lays keel for Sovcomflot PSV

The vessel is being built under an agreement signed in April 2014 which 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 the 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 can implement a full set of measures to protect the environment and provide safety support for platform staff.

Vyborg Shipyards, where hull structures of the supply and support vessels are being built, will act as subcontractor under the shipbuilding contract signed with Arctech Shipyards. “This order will assure a high level of capacity utilisation for the Russian enterprise [Vyborg] until 2016,” Sovcomflot noted.

Evgeny Ambrosov, senior executive vice president of Sovcomflot, said: “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.”

Principal particulars:
Deadweight: 3,000 tonnes
Ice class: Ice 15
Length: 104.20m
Beam: 23.90m
Loaded draft: 7.90m
Operating speed: 16 knots