Stepan-Makarov

SCF Group's icebreaking standby vessel Stepan Makarov on August 6, 2017 year arrived in Sakhalin, Gazprom said Wednesday. ‎ ‎The multifunctional icebreaking standby vessel was built at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Oy (a Finland based subsidiary of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corp.), in accordance with RS and international standards of safety of navigation and is able to operated in adverse climate conditions in the Sea of Okhotsk. ‎ ‎ The icebreaker will be operated under a long-term time charter agreement between Sakhalin Energy and ‎‎Sovcomflot‎‎.

On 15 June 2017, the naming ceremony took place for a new multifunctional icebreaking standby vessel (IBSBV) built to order for SCF Group. The vessel was constructed at the Arctech Helsinki Shipyard and was commissioned under a long-term agreement between SCF and Sakhalin Energy for the Sakhalin-2 project, SCF Group says in a press release. Stepan Makarov will have Saint Petersburg as her home port and is registered under the Russian flag. The main tasks of the vessel are to ensure the safety of the personnel on the offshore oil and gas production platforms of Sakhalin Energy in the Sea of Okhotsk, to respond to emergency spills at sea and to support the company's operations within its technical capabilities. She is the first of three IBSBVs commissioned by SCF Group for operations at the Sakhalin-2 project. The fourth ship commissioned by SCF for this project, an icebreaking supply vessel Gennadiy Nevelskoy, has already been delivered and arrived at Sakhalin Island in April 2017. The agreement between SCF Group and Sakhalin Energy, signed in 2014, involves the operation of all four vessels for twenty years under the Sakhalin-2 project. http://en.portnews.ru/news/240698/