MNP Group constructed barge under the order of Italian Company Saipem SpA
Group MNP (Marine and oil and gas projects) has constructed a building barge (platform) Ersai 1 under the order of Italian company Saipem SpA for Kazakhstan deposit Kashagan in the Northern Caspian Sea. As a press release of MNP GC informs, today the signing of the statement of transfer took place at the Lotus shipbuilding factory. Within a week the barge will be relocated to Baku where it will be shipped with a crane with a carrying capacity of 1400 tons and the building equipment. The contract between MNP Group and Saipem SpA was concluded at the end of 2004 and provided designing, purchase of the equipment and construction of a platform. Dimensions of the barge did not allow construction entirely at one shipyard that’s why the left pontoon was under construction at shipbuilding and repair factory by the name of III International, as for the right pontoon it was constructed at the Krasnoye Sormovo. Coral CDB developed technical and working projects, it also provided technical support of construction. The right pontoon was launched in September 2005, left - in November 2005. Width of each pontoon is 21 meter, length - 140 meters. Float joining of two pontoons took place at the Lotus Astrakhan factory where assembly works, connection of pipelines and systems, completion and tests were carried out. This was complicated and at the same time unique challenge because the joining of the pontoons constructed at different factories was carried out on float. It demanded the maximum accuracy for producing both pontoons, ballasting, tightness of the bottom using special technology, joining and welding of an assembly joint and in poor winter conditions. Similar operations for structures made at different factories, were held to Russia for the first time.
Sea and oil-and-gas project GC (MNP group) carries out management of projects in the field of shipbuilding and engineering of sea drilling platforms. The Group incorporates leading Russian shipyards, namely Krasnoye Sormovo factory (Nizhni Novgorod), Nizhniy Novgorod Motor Vessel factory, Volgograd shipbuilding factory, Astrakhan shipbuilding and repair factory and Astrakhan shipbuilding and repair factory named by the III International, Lotus factory (Astrakhan), and also Coral CDB (the Ukraine) and Friede& Goldman (USA).
Sea and oil-and-gas project GC (MNP group) carries out management of projects in the field of shipbuilding and engineering of sea drilling platforms. The Group incorporates leading Russian shipyards, namely Krasnoye Sormovo factory (Nizhni Novgorod), Nizhniy Novgorod Motor Vessel factory, Volgograd shipbuilding factory, Astrakhan shipbuilding and repair factory and Astrakhan shipbuilding and repair factory named by the III International, Lotus factory (Astrakhan), and also Coral CDB (the Ukraine) and Friede& Goldman (USA).
