Total backlog of orders placed by Sovcomflot OJSC with Russian shipyards exceeds $200 mln, the Company’s Director General Sergey Frank announced at the meeting with RF President Vladimir Putin, the meeting records read.
“An agreement has been signed with Gazprom to develop a series of 170,000-m3 gas carriers at joint venture Zvezda in Primorsk Territory. Gazprom offers good opportunities; our shipbuilders expect they will master this production by the end of 2017–2018. Of course, they are to perform a large amount of work. But we support them with orders and we will certainly provide them with such an opportunity. As for this series of vessels costing over $200 mln each, this investment generally runs into billions even if they undertake a half or a considerable part of this order,” Frank said...
According to him, over the past 5 years the company invested RUB 22 bln into national shipbuilding and it is especially satisfied with this work. “Our further priority is to organize civil shipbuilding in the Far East region. We focus on USC which has announced this as the first priority plan,” Frank added.
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.
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