Synopsis
Shipbuilding
- ZNT Yard. For shipping providing
- Steerprop Ltd. to deliver main propulsion to an Italian-built passenger ferry
Steerprop Ltd. has been contracted to deliver main propulsion system to a passenger ferry due to be built for Société des traversiers du Québec (STQ) by the Italian Fincantieri. The contract represents an important step for Steerprop Ltd. in delivering more powerful main propulsion to passenger vessels than before.
- Mixed-navigation cargo ships in Russian economy of the XXI century
- Platform service vessel FAR SOLITAIRE elected Ship of the Year 2012
Built by STX OSV Langsten
for owners Farstad Shipping ASA, the
unique offshore platform service vessel
FAR SOLITAIRE was declared Ship of the
Year 2012 by Norwegian State Secretary
of Trade and Industry.
- Kherson Shipyard has launched the first complete tanker
On October 19 a.c. a launching ceremony of a
RST27 Project Tanker Product-Carrier took place
at Kherson Shipyard (KSY. Kherson city, Ukraine),
forming part of Shipbuilding Division of Smart Holding
– Smart Marine Group. This is the first of complete
series vessels, built at the shipyard within the
framework of the Contract with SVL Company Group
(Malta). The Contract Total Cost is over USD 50 mln.
- Russian speed fleet modernization: problems and solutions
Shipping
- Novatek and Rosatom enter into cooperation agreement
Moscow, 12 November 2012. OAO NOVATEK
announced that the Chairman of NOVATEK’s
Management Board, Leonid Mikhelson, and the
General Director of the State Atomic Energy
Corporation ROSATOM, Sergey Kirienko, have
signed a General Cooperation Agreement.
- Group Technology Centre
announced in Singapore
with A*STAR
Lloyd’s Register has established a world-class
Group Technology Centre (GTC) in Singapore to deliver innovation
and solutions to the energy and maritime sectors. It has
also reached an agreement with the Agency for Science, Technology
and Research (A*STAR) to collaborate on R&D projects
as a key part of the centre’s activities.
- Port of Tallinn signed the purchasing deal for icebreaker MSV Botnica
Ports
- GE and Joint Venture Partners
Celebrate Groundbreaking
for 6FA Gas Turbine Facility in Russia
GE and two Russian joint venture partners, INTER
RAO UES and United Engine Corporation held a groundbreaking ceremony for
the Russian Gas Turbines LLC Manufacturing Facility.
- Gazprom and Summa Group to develop global market of LNG
as bunker fuel for marine vessels
September, 20, 2012 - the Memorandum
of Understanding was signed by
Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman
of the Gazprom Management Committee
and Alexander Vinokurov, President of
Summa Group.
- North Rhine-Westphalia opens
representative office in Russia
North Rhine-
Westphalia, Germany's economically most important federal
state, is intensifying its relations with Russia. 2 October 2012, Dr. Günther
Horzetzky, State Secretary in the NRW Ministry of Economic Affairs,
and Professor Alexander Prochorenko, Chairman of the
Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg city government,
opened the new North Rhine-Westphalian representation
in Russia: NRW.INVEST Russia.
- Port news
Ocean and shelf exploration
- Hotchya Marine Design. New technical capabilities to explore the Arctic
In the second half of the XXI century, the reserves of oil and gas in such traditional production regions as the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and Siberia will be depleted. And the demand for energy resources will increase many times. The development of the hydrocarbon riches of the Arctic is the only opportunity to resolve the energy problem of humankind.
- We Deliver: Nord
Stream’s Twin Pipelines
Come On Stream
Just 30 months after the start of construction
of its first pipeline, Nord Stream’s
twin pipeline system came on stream today,
on schedule and on budget. International
specialists worked around the clock
under the most challenging conditions to
construct the pipelines with a total weight
of 4 million tonnes.
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