Over the past five years, the Zvezda shipyard has delivered seven vessels to customers, including Aframax oil tankers with a deadweight of 114,000 tons, Rosneft reported. This confirms the growth of the company's capacity and its ability to implement large-tonnage projects in civil shipbuilding.
The Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex is the first Russian shipyard for large-tonnage production, capable of producing ice-class vessels, special vessels, and ships with a displacement of up to 350,000 tons. The shipyard's order book includes about 60 vessels, including nuclear icebreakers, Arctic shuttles, and new-generation tankers.
Today, the ceremony of transferring the first Russian LNG tanker-gas carrier for Arctic conditions, the ARC 7 class icebreaker "Aleksey Kosygin", to Sovcomflot PJSC took place at the shipyard. It became the lead vessel in the series for the Arctic LNG-2 project.
According to industry sources, five vessels out of the fifteen planned Arc 7 tankers have already been launched: "Aleksey Kosygin", "Pyotr Stolypin", "Sergey Vitte", "Konstantin Posyet" and "Viktor Chernomyrdin".
Earlier, Rosnefteflot JSC, a subsidiary of Rosneft Oil Company, concluded contracts with SSK Zvezda LLC for the construction of ten Arctic shuttle tankers with a deadweight of 42 thousand tons each. Simultaneously, an agreement was signed between Rosnefteflot JSC and Taimyrneftegaz JSC on the transfer of these tankers to a time charter for a period of 20 years.
The ARC7 reinforced ice-class tankers are designed to operate in ice up to 1.8 m thick at an ambient air temperature of up to minus 45 degrees. The new series of tankers will be used to transport oil produced at the Payakhskoye field from the mouth of the Yenisei River along the Northern Sea Route.
Earlier, the first Russian Arctic gas carrier "Aleksey Kosygin" was handed over to the customer.