Jan De Nul to dredge 10 mln m3 in Sabetta this year (photo report)

Jan De Nul plans to dredge 10 mln m³ in Sabetta during the 10-week period, IAA PortNews learnt form the company’s press center. The dredging fleet of Jan De Nul commenced operation on August 2, 2013. 

The work is being carried out according to the schedule. In close cooperation with Rosmorport FSUE, Yamal LNG OJSC and USK MOST OJSC, Jan De Nul is engaged in daily pass of transport barges loaded with different cargoes of Yamal LNG across the sites of dredging works. Marine and air links with large cities of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District have been arranged to ensure the rotation of the dredgers’ crews. Food and fuel is delivered from Murmansk and Salekhard. 

Jan De Nul Group’s Russian subsidiary, Jan De Nul NV Russia, won in a tendering process with participation of contractors from the Netherlands and Belgium and was awarded the major dredging contract. The tender was carried out by JSC USK MOST which was appointed by the Russian Government decree No 1716-r of 17.09.2012) the sole contractor for the state order - the construction of facilities of a seaport in the area of Sabetta settlement.  The dredging project is scheduled for completion in 2016. During the 2014-2016 period, the fleet of Jan De Null is expected to dredge up to 70 million cbm of material. Despite these volumes, the contractor Jan De Nul said it would be able to handle the project on its own. 

The dredging project is being implemented by eighteen vessels including cutter suction dredgers Leonardo Da Vinci (installed power 20.26 MW, length 129.7 m, draught 5.2 m), Niccolo Machiavelli (installed power 23.52 MW, length 138.5 m, draught 5.5 m), trailing suction hopper dredgers Bartolomeu Diaz (hopper capacity 14 thousand cbm, length 147,8 m, draught loaded 11.2 m, dredging depth up to 52 m), Al Idrisi (hopper capacity 7,500 cbm, length 119.1 m, draught loaded 8.15 m, dredging depth up to 46.4 m), Francesco Di Giorgio (hopper capacity 4,400 cbm, length 95.3 m, draught loaded 7.3 m, dredging depth up to 28.5 m), Amerigo Vespucci (hopper capacity 3,500 cbm, length 97.7 m, draught loaded 6.2 m, dredging depth up to 36.5 m), Pinta (hopper capacity 3,400 cbm, length 89.7 m, draught loaded 5.4 m, dredging depth up to 31 m),  De Bougainville (hopper capacity 3,700 cbm, length 99.5 m, draught loaded 5.85 m, dredging depth up to 32 m), split hopper barges Boussole (hopper capacity 3,700 cbm, length 99.5 m, draught loaded 5.85 m), L’Aigle (hopper capacity 3,700 cbm, length 99.5 m, draught loaded 5.85 m), Tiger (hopper capacity 3,700 cbm, length 99.5 m, draught loaded 5.85 m), Astrolabe (hopper capacity 3,700 cbm, length 99.5 m, draught loaded 5.85 m), Le Guerrier (hopper capacity 3,700 cbm, length 99.5 m, draught loaded 5.85 m), anchor boat, tugboats, survey craft and pontoon for berth operations. 

The port is being built within the framework of Yamal LNG project.

Yamal LNG project envisages the construction of an LNG plant with annual capacity of 16.5 million tons per annum based on the feedstock resources of the South-Tambeyskoye field. According to the PRMS reserve standards, the proven and probable reserves of the South-Tambeyskoye field as of 31 December 2012 were appraised at 907 billion cubic meters of natural gas. The Project also requires the construction of transport infrastructure including a sea-port and an airport located at Sabetta (north-east of the Yamal Peninsula).

The Group’s dredging fleet has had an experience of operation in both Russian ports (Ust-Luga, Vostochny, Sabetta) and in offshore projects of the Russian Federation aimed at the development of oil & gas fields of Sakhalin-1 (DeCastri, Tatar Straight, Chayvo, Orlan), Sakhalin-2 (Nakhodka, Prigorodnoye, Lunskoye, Piltun), Sakhalin-3 (Kirinskoye GKM). With its strong background in Russia, diverse state-of-the-art dredging fleet capable of operation in adverse climatic conditions including those in Russian Arctic, Jan De Nul Group is ready to participate in other large-scale projects on construction of new ports and development of Russia’s offshore oil & gas fields.