Sevmash to finalize construction of “Prirazlomnaya” platform by 2009
The priority project of shipbuilding plant Sevmash (Archangelsk region) is construction of platforms for Shtokman field, Mikhail Storozhilov, head of Sevmash press center reports according to REGNUM news agency. Storozhilov says Gazprom has already worked out a conception for the field development. According to the conception the company will require several platforms and a number of service vessels. "The perspective to work in this direction is great and our task is to participate in this project,” Storozhilov noted. If we are ordered to build platforms for the Shtokman field it is to be our priority regardless the foreign customers". It is important for the plant to get orders from a Russian customer, however orders from foreign partners are not excluded. The value of “Prirazlomnaya” platform is said to total RUR 1 billion. The active phase of construction has already been finished. It has been assembled though completion date will depend on completion of a technical project which is being updated now. Construction of “Prirazlomnaya” platform is to be finished by 2009.
Today Sevmash has transferred the platform MOSS CS-50 MkII (project 2958) to Moss Mosvold Platforms AS (Norway). Nowadays the second platform of the same type is under construction at Sevmash. According to the company’s press center, Sevmash has managed to launch the serial production of off-shore drilling platforms. Construction of marine platform “Prirazlomnaya” ordered by Gazprom OJSC is coming to en end. Besides, the issue of building different platforms for Shtokman gas condensate field in the Barents Sea is urgent today as Sevmash is the closest to the site among other large shipbuilding plants.
