Gazprom: big deals ahead for shipbuilders

When developing the offshore shelf, Gazprom will seek to replace foreign-made equipment with analogues from Russian yards, company leaders told Russian shipbuilders. In a meeting in the Gazprom headquarters last week, company Deputy Aleksandr Ananenkov stressed that the company's development of the shelf, as well as the production and transport of LNG, requires a massive development of new vessels and offshore installations. According to Gazprom, the company needs more than ten rigs and platforms, more than 60 various ships and several tens of LNG carriers by year 2030, a press release from the company reads.
Gazprom will do its utmost to use the capacities of Russian shipbuilders and considers to replace foreign-made equipment with Russian analogues, Ananenkov confirmed.
This opens up major perspectives for the modernization of equipment and the introduction of new technology, and provides the yards with a real chance of reaching a qualitatively new level of production, he told the shipbuilders.
Present at the meeting were representatives of the Baltic Yard, the Vyborg Yard, the Northern Yard, the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute, as well as several Gazprom subsidiaries.