Gazprom’s orders facilitating development of Russian shipbuilding sector
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A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Georgy Poltavchenko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), took place today.
The parties discussed both current and potential areas of their cooperation. It was noted that the works being performed on Gazprom's order facilitate the development of the shipbuilding sector of Russia.
For instance, the meeting participants reviewed the construction progress of the stationary ice-resistant platform of Gazprom to be used at the Kamennomysskoye-Sea field. The enterprises of the USC Group are currently building the side part and the central part of the platform's support structure, as well as the auxiliary drilling module and the energy complex.
Apart from that, USC is also working to create domestic models of remotely operated unmanned underwater vehicles in the interests of Gazprom. Said vehicles are planned to be used, inter alia, in pre-development and operation of offshore oil & gas fields.
As for potential areas of cooperation, they include the use of the production capacities of USC for the provision of centralized maintenance and repair services to Gazprom's floating drilling rigs and other marine equipment.
Background
The Kamennomysskoye-Sea gas field is located in the Ob Bay of the Kara Sea. The field is unique in terms of its gas reserves.
A special stationary ice-resistant platform (ICP) will be the key facility in the offshore pre-development of the field. In order to build the facility, several Russian shipbuilding and machine-building centers are providing their capacities according to the 'distributed shipyard' principle: separate components of the ICP are simultaneously put together on the premises of different enterprises.
United Shipbuilding Corporation is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia. The holding company includes about 40 design offices and specialized research centers, shipyards, ship repair and machine-building businesses, through which USC has consolidated the majority of capacities in the domestic shipbuilding industry.