M/V Inzhener Trubin (Murmansk Shipping Company) will deliver reinforced concrete structures to the Yamal peninsula where port Sabetta and infrastructure facilities are being built under Yamal LNG project. Total weight of pile raft foundation (168 items) currently loaded onto the ship exceeds 5,500 t, the Company says.
The pile raft foundation is manufactured in Murmansk by Olen Beton LLC.
In 2015, Murmansk Shipping Company shipped some 120,000 t of general cargo and over 250,000 t of crushed stone bound for Yamal. щебня. Crushed stone with characteristics required for construction works in challenging conditions of the permafrost is delivered to the berths of Murmansk Shipping Company by road transport from the quarries near Severomorsk and Magnetity.
Icebreaker support along the way towards Sabetta is provided by nuclear-powered icebreakers of Atomflot.
“Leading companies of the Murmansk Region take an active part in Yamal LNG project, mostly due to the infrastructure advantages of the ice-free port in the Kola Bay allowing for handling vessels and shipping cargoes even in the most severe frosts,” says the statement.
Construction of Arctic port Sabetta and an LNG plant with annual capacity of 16.5 million tonnes per annum based on the feedstock resources of the South-Tambeyskoye field are the first priority projects of Russia on the Yamal peninsula. According to the PRMS reserve standards, the proven and probable reserves of the South-Tambeyskoye field were appraised at 926 billion cubic meters of natural gas (as of December 31, 2014). Phase I of the LNG Plant is to become operational in 2017.
Murmansk Commercial Seaport was founded in 1994. MMTP operates 17 berths of total length of about 3 km. The waters depths allow the port to accommodate vessels with draft of 15.5 m and length of more than 265 m.
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