Gazprom ready to pay over $500 mln for sea-based helicopter platform at Shtokman
MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - LLC Gazflot, a subsidiary of Russian gas giant Gazprom , plans to announce an open tender for offers for building a sea-based helicopter platform for the Shtokman gas condensate field in the Barents Sea, Gazprom said in its materials.
The guidance price for the project is 16.317 billion rubles with VAT (almost $550 million).
The tender should be held before June 1, 2012. The presumed timing for the platform's construction is between June 2012 and the end of 2015.
In world practice, the average cost for a full-scale drilling platform comes to $400 million-$500 million. For instance, OJSC United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will build an ice-resistant stationary platform worth around 14 billion rubles at Astrakhan Shipbuilding Production Union. This platform will be built for drilling and well operations at the Filanovsky field. This project should be finished by the end of 2015.
OJSC Riga Shipyard and Chernomornaftogaz signed an agreement at the end of 2011 for the delivery of a self-elevating floating drilling unit worth around $400 million. Offers were also received from Highway Investment Processing LLP (Wales) worth $400.344 million (excluding VAT) and Diafall Ltd (Britain) - $405 million (with VAT).
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave instructions in April 2011 in order that state companies decide on reducing costs for acquiring goods, operations, and services by at least 10% a year per production unit over a three-year period.
Gazprom reported to its board of directors at the start of 2012 that 9,132 actual purchases worth a combined 611.3 million rubles had been made in the interest of companies in the Gazprom group. The decrease in prices in relation to the initial cost (maximum prices) came to 8.1%, which helped the group save 54.1 billion rubles.