Synopsis

Shipbuilding

• ZNT Yard. New growth opportunities
  
• Radice Propellers, a big thrust for “Alfredo”
  The motorvessel Alfredo is one of the naval units for which Eliche Radice provided propeller and shaft lines, specifically designed and manufactured in all its characteristics.
• Large freezer trawler General Troshev delivered to Customer
  
• Concept of new generation mixed tankers
  
• SYNERGETIKA Company – reliable engine operation
  
• Marine Technics – 15 years with you
  In 2012, the Group of companies «Marine Technics» celebrates its 15-years. The company was founded in 1997 by Abdul Mehtiev, the graduate of the Naval Academy Makarova. Initially «Marine Technics» company had a deal with the sale of ship spare parts on Russian market. The staff of company consisted of 6 people.
• The South Stream Gas Pipeline Through the Black Sea
  Natural gas is the most climate-friendly fossil fuel, efficient, and abundant. But with European gas consumption rising and domestic production declining, the region needs additional gas supplies and reliable supply routes to secure its energy for the next decades.

Shipping

• New office RS and Design and Newbuilding Support Centre
  Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has opened a new office in the capital of the Republic of Panama on 1 March 2012.The new office will facilitate the organisation of quality and timely request performance in the Republic of Panama, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean,Colombia as well as Venezuela and Ecuador. Dmitry Posokhov has been appointed as the manager of the new office.
• Sovcomflot and SIBUR sign a long-term charter agreement for two gas tankers
  On 27 March 2012 SCF Group (Sovcomflot) – Russia’s largest shipowner, and oil and chemical holding SIBUR – a national leader in oil and chemical industry, signed a long-term charter agreement for two gas tankers to perform regular year-round transportation of SIBUR liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
• Wave of ecofriendly solutions
  

Ports

• Gazprom Neft Lubricants signs marine engine oils production agreement with Chevron
  27 March 2012 - Gazprom Neft Lubricants and Chevron have signed a licensing agreement for the manufacture of marine engine oils, allowing the Gazprom Neft subsidiary to supply a wide range of lubricants, including hydraulic, compressor, turbine and cooling liquids as well as specialized lubricants, for sea and river vessels.
• NCSP Group development strategy up to 2020: figures and facts
  
• NCC development strategy approved
  
• Port of Rotterdam Authority to develop new Brazilian port
  
• Port news
  
• Transstroy heads for full technical upgrading of production capacities
  

Ocean and shelf exploration

• Rosneft and ExxonMobil Announce Progress in Strategic Cooperation Agreement
  MOSCOW, Russia, April 16, 2012 - Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed agreements to implement a long-term Strategic Cooperation Agreement concluded in August 2011 to jointly explore for and develop oil and natural gas in Russia and to share technology and expertise.
• Rosneft and Eni Join Forces to Explore Fields in the Barents and Black Seas
  April 25, 2012 - Rosneft and Eni today signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to jointly explore fields in Russian sections of the Black and Barents Seas and exchange technology and staff. The agreement also envisages Rosneft's participation in Eni's international projects.
• Rosneft and Statoil Agree on Joint Offshore Operations in the Barents Sea and Sea of Okhotsk
  May 5, 2012 - Rosneft and Statoil signed a cooperation agreement to jointly explore offshore fields in the Russian sections of the Barents Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. The agreement also covers Rosneft's participation in the exploration of license blocks in the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea, as well as the possible acquisition by Rosneft of interests in Statoil's international projects.
• Hotchya Naval Architect Company is designing the unique vessel
  Oil and gas production is closely related to development of multiple fields on shelves of Arctic and Far East seas. These areas have localized hydrocarbon stocks. Within the next ten years pipelines with total length exceeding 2.5 thousand kilometers will be mounted, connecting with shelves of Barents sea, Kara Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. Projects of submerged pipelines through Baltic and Black seas look grand in the same manner.
• Advantages of thermally sprayed coatings
  
• SPRAMET-ANTISLIP – wear-resistant antislip coating
  
• Nord Stream Completes Laying Line 2 Ahead of Schedule
  The Nord Stream Project took another major step forward today with the completion of offshore pipelay of the second of its twin 1,224-kilometre gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea ahead of schedule. Following extensive precommissioning and commissioning, Line 2 is scheduled to begin transporting gas towards the end of 2012 as part of a fully automated twin-pipeline gas transport system capable of transporting 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas per year from Russia to the European Union, for at least 50 years.
• The South Stream Gas Pipeline Through the Black Sea
  

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