Rosneft completes formation of order book for Zvezda shipyard - USC
VLADIVOSTOK. Jan 30 (Interfax) - Rosneft has completed the lineup of vessels it is having built at the Zvezda shipyard in Primorye, a spokesman for United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) subsidiary Far East Center for Shipbuilding and Ship Repair reported.
"First and foremost, this concerns ice class vessels needed to develop Russia's north. These are production and exploration platforms, ships for exploring oil reserves, for transportation hydrocarbons from the fields," said Yury Filchyonok, the head of the Zvezda plant in the Far East, where the shipyard will be built.
After launch of the production lines at the shipyard, in Bolshoi Kamen, manufacture will begin of the topside modules for stationary complexes to develop offshore fields in the Arctic, mobile drilling rigs (semisubmersible and jack-up), shelf support ships, including supertankers, as well as icebreakers.
