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CIMC Raffles is implementing a new scheme to build a yard in Vladivostok, Russia, to build offshore structures for operation in the Arctic, writes Xu Yihe.
04 November 2011 01:17 GMT
The yard has formed a joint venture with Russia’s state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) geared to the fabrication of offshore drilling rigs.
The Vostok Raffles yard, covering 680,000 square metres, is 75% owned by USC and 25% by CIMC Raffles. Brian Chang, executive vice chairman of CIMC Raffles, has been appointed chairman of Vostok Raffles.
The product line of the new yard will be ice-class semi-submersibles for Russian clients such as Rosneft for operation in extremely cold environments.
USC owns outfits engaged in shipbuilding, repair and maintenance in western and northern Russia, and in the country’s far east.
Chang says it is a good time to set foot in the Russian offshore engineering market thanks to the anticipated rise in local demand and the need to boost the country’s offshore engineering industry.
The venture is already building a rig in Russia for Dragon Oil (Turkmenistan).
Built at the KB Yard in Russia, the rig is an ice-class jack-up of Friede & Goldman Super M2 design, able to operate in water depths of up to 300 feet with a drilling depth of 30,000 feet.
CIMC Raffles has dispatched 30 engineers to work at the Russian yard, which is to install the legs and modules prefabricated at CIMC Raffles’ yard in Yantai.
TSC Offshore China will provide all the drilling equipment and Momentum Engineering will be the drilling contractor.
This marks the first step for CIMC Raffles in Russia’s Caspian Sea region, where the company sees strong rig demand and high dayrates. |
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