The new ice-breaking platform supply vesse[ds_preview]l (IBSV) for the Sakhalin-2 project has been named »Gennadiy Nevelskoy«.
The vessel was commissioned by Sovcomflot (SCF) Group under a long-term agreement with Sakhalin Energy. The newbuilding named after Gennadiy Nevelskoy, a famous explorer of the Sakhalin Island and the Russian Far East.
The »Gennadiy Nevelskoy« (deadweight 3,000 t) will have Saint Petersburg as her home port and is registered under the Russian flag. She is the first of four vessels commissioned by SCF Group for operations at the Sakhalin-2 project. The other three are ice-breaking standby vessels (IBSBVs) that have a smaller deadweight (2,000 t), but offer enhanced functionality and a higher people-on-board capacity.
The agreement between Sovcomflot and Sakhalin Energy, signed in 2014, involves the operation of these four vessels for twenty years under the Sakhalin-2 project. They will be used for the year-round delivery of supplies and consumables to Sakhalin Energy‘s three offshore platforms in the Sea of Okhotsk, and for performing standby duty near the platforms. In an emergency, the vessels will also be used for integrated environmental protection and rescue operations.
The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, which is providing technical supervision during the construction of all the four vessels, has assigned an ice class of Icebreaker 6 to the new IBSV.
As part of the Sakhalin-2 project, SCF Group today already operates three platform supply vessels (»SCF Endeavour«, »SCF Endurance«, and »SCF Enterprise«), three Aframax crude oil shuttle tankers (»Zaliv Aniva«, »Sakhalin Island«, and »Governor Farkhutdinov«), and two LNG carriers (»Grand Aniva« and »Grand Elena«), both operated together with Japan’s NYK Line. All the vessels are operated under long-term time charter contracts with Sakhalin Energy.
