Name-giving ceremony has been held for LNG carrier Pskov at STX Offshore & Shipbuilding (S. Korea), says Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
The Pskov is the second in the series of four membrane-type gas carriers of 170,000 cubic meters being built by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd under technical supervision of RS. The vessel was ordered by Sovcomflot OJSC for Gazprom Global LNG with RS/Lloyd Register dual class. RS class notation: KM (*)Ice2 AUT1 OMBO EPP ANTI-ICE LI CCO ECO-S WINTERIZATION(-30) Gas carrier type 2G (methane).
The head vessel Velikiy Novgorod was launched on January 15, 2013. The Pskov will be delivered to the customer on August 29, 2014. On her maiden voyage the Pskov will sail from Nakhodka to Incheon (Republic of Korea).
Sovcomflot Group is Russia’s largest shipping company and one of the world’s leading shipping companies specializing in the maritime hydrocarbons transportation and supporting continental shelf exploration and oil & gas production. The SCF fleet includes 156 vessels with a combined deadweight of around 12 million tonnes. One third of them have a high ice class. The Group specialises in hydrocarbon transportation from regions with challenging ice conditions. Sovcomflot supports large-scale offshore energy projects in Russia and the rest of the world, including: Sakhalin-I, Sakhalin-II, Varandey, Prirazlomnoye, Tangguh, Escobar, and Peregrino.
The company is registered in Saint-Petersburg and has representative offices in Moscow, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Vladivostok, London, Limassol, Madrid, Singapore and Dubai.