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The construction of such vessels at Russia’s shipyards has not been possible till recent time. However, new shipbuilding facilities which have appeared in Russia, will allow the Russina Federation to plan the building of large tankers from 2014. On 18 November 2009, in the town of Bolshoy Kamen, SCF Group and OAO United Shipbuilding Corporation signed a package of agreements on the joint development of technical and commercial parameters for the construction of not less than six Suezmax tankers (about 160,000 tonnes dwt each) at the newly created capacities in the Primorsk region, as well as four LNG tankers of 170,000 cubic metres capacity each. Today SCF group remains the largest customer of Russia’s shipyards, for the ordering of merchant vessels. The line of ships, completed and under construction, ordered by the company at Russian shipyards, includes product carriers of MR class, unique shuttle tankers of a high ice class to serve oil and gas offshore fields of the Arctic region, and port tugs. Sovcomflot cooperates both with the yards, with members of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (Admiralty Shipyards), and private enterprises (Pella shipyard). Sovcomflot (SCF) Group – is one of Russia’s largest infrastructure enterprises. Its fleet comprises 146 vessels of more than 10 million tonnes (dwt) in total; Its current shipbuilding portfolio includes 16 ships of an aggregate deadweight of 1.55 million tonnes (dwt); • The average age of vessels in the tanker fleet is six years (the world average age is 12 years); • SCF Group is a world leader in the product carrier segment; it is the second largest in the Aframax tanker segment and the fourth largest in the Suezmax tanker sector; • The company owns the largest ice-class fleet, being No.1 in the segment of the Arctic shuttle tankers and ice-classed LNG tankers; • The Group’s services include not only transporting hydrocarbons for its customers, but also trans-shipping crude oil via FSO facilities, terminal management and developing effective logistics for transporting energy, and providing supply vessels services to drilling rigs and offshore platforms. Surgutneftegaz – is one of the largest oil enterprises in Russia. Its share in Russia’s oil and gas production equals around 13 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively. For many years the company has been the industry’s leader in exploration and operational drilling and in bringing into operation the new producers. The company was the first in Russia to introduce a complete cycle of production, gas processing, energy production, ready-made product development and raw materials for oil and chemical industry. There are 59 structural units in the enterprise which perform the whole complex of operations in exploration and development, in construction of production facilities and pipelines, in providing for ecological safety of production and in automation of production processes. Surgut – is the largest industrial and cultural centre of the Hanty-Mansiysky Autonomous District – Yugra of the Tyumen Area, one of Russia’s main centres of oil producing industry. The city is referred to as the capital of the oil region and the energy heart of Siberia. The development of oil producing and energy industries is the main factor in the city’s economic stability. The activities of the Surgutneftegaz oil company cover a significant share of the city’s industrial production. The branches of major generating companies in the electricity wholesale market: OGK-2 and OGK-4 – the State regional electric power stations GRES-1 and GRES-2. OAO Sovcomflot Press Centre |
Tanker SCF Surgut accepted for operation
The naming and delivery ceremony, which took place at the Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard (Republic of Korea), was attended by Vladimir Bogdanov, General Director of Surgutneftegaz (one of Russia’s largest oil and gas companies and a major customer of Sovcomflot), Alexander Sidorov, Head of the City of Surgut, the top management of Sovcomflot and the shipyard.