Krylov Center prepares technical project of drill ship intended for round-the-year operation in the Arctic

Krylov State Research Center (KSRC, Saint-Petersburg) has prepared a technical project of a drill ship able to execute round-the-year exploratory drilling in any Arctic region, IAA PortNews journalist cites Sergei Alekseyev, deputy head of KSRC Commercial Department, as saying at the international conference ‘Russia Offshore’. 

According to him, the vessel is estimated at $400 mln and Gazprom shows interest in such vessels. This D.P. vessel will be able to operate in ice of up to 2.5 meters thick and will be built by Sevmash shipyard (Severodvinsk) or Zvezda shipyard (Far East). The issue of replacing imports comes out here as marine drilling systems are not in production in Russia today. Uralmash has held some engineering studies in this area and it needs state financing to move on.

Krylov State Research Center was set up in 1894 as Russia’s first model testing basin in the central part of St. Petersburg. It is a scientific research organization of the national shipbuilding sector focused on conceptual and workshop designs of naval ships, merchant vessels and offshore structures as well as on their operation and disposal.