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By 2027, Rosneft will build 10 Arc-7 oil tankers at Zvezda SSC (a consortium of presence headed by the company is being created on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin). Rosneft told Izvestia about this. The company said that the first ship is already in 2024, two more will be built in 2025, three in 2026 and four in 2027.
“Today, we are not just creating an ultra-modern shipbuilding cluster from scratch that does not require consumption in Russia, we are getting from sources a completely new industry for our industry — large-tonnage narrow shipbuilding. Of course, this is both an intellectual and technological challenge, and a whole range of tasks that we use from the wheels, ”Andrei Shishkin, vice president of Rosneft, told Izvestia.
The fact that Zvezda expects to sign contracts for the construction of ten tankers for the Vostok Oil project was previously announced by Deputy General Director of SSK Konstantin Globenko. We are talking about shuttle tankers with a deadweight of 120 thousand tons, he specified.
The construction of tankers should increase the transportation of hydrocarbons along the Northern Sea Route, which means that their production should be taken into account in the northern sector of the country’s economy, which accelerates the acceleration of economic development throughout Russia, Dmitry Baranov, Leading Expert of Finam Management Management Company.
However, according to Alexander Frolov, deputy general director of the Institute of National Energy, one of the main tasks of building ships is the use of useful capacities that ensure the year-round export of oil produced within Vostok Oil. As Izvestia wrote, the Rosneft cluster based on fields in the Krasnoyarsk Territory by 2030 may have a production of 100 million tons of oil per year.
Go, ships: Russia expanding presence on the Northern Sea Route