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. | Velikiy Novgorod LNG carrier - Image Gazprom |
Jan 23, 2014 + + + OAO Gazprom has chartered its fifth and now largest LNG carrier from Russian shipping company Sovcomflot at the STX O&S shipyard in the city of Jinhae, South Korea. The Velikiy Novgorod vessel has a capacity of 170,000 cu m, including membrane cargo tanks, and is run by a diesel-electric drive fueled by LNG, fuel oil, or gas oil. The Ice2 class vessel, first in a series of high-tech ice-class LNG carriers designed for Gazprom, is capable of shipping cargoes in low-temperature conditions, including through the Northern Sea Route during the navigation period in the open water. “At present, Sovcomflot is constructing a similar gas carrier, Pskov, which is due to be delivered to Gazprom this September,” said Alexander Medvedev, director general of Gazprom export.
Medvedev added, “Gazprom is pursuing a stagewise strategy in the LNG
production and supply sector. As part of these efforts, we are creating
our own tanker fleet capable of shipping LNG to any terminal of the world,
as well as along the Northern Sea Route.” Gazprom plans to expand its share in the global LNG market to 15% after the Vladivostok LNG and Baltic LNG projects are onstream.
Gazprom accounts for nearly 5% in the global LNG production, supplying LNG
to Japan, South Korea, China, India, Taiwan, the UK, the USA, Kuwait, the
UAE, and Mexico.
Source: Oil & Gas Journal, Jan. 23, 2014
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