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Red Star Shipyard begins construction of second ARC7 icebreaker LNG carrier

Following the start of the first production ship late last year, the Arc7 icebreaker LNG carrier built by Russian Red Star Shipyard (Zvezda) recently held a steel plate cutting ceremony.

The new vessel, owned by SMART LNG, a joint venture subsidiary of Russian energy giant Novatek and Russian shipping company Sovcomflot, is one of 14 ICE breaking LNG vessels ordered by SMART LNG at Red Star Shipyard. Together with the first vessel previously ordered by Sovcomflot, the 15 LNG vessels will serve Novatek's Arctic LNG export project Arctic LNG 2.

The new ARC7 ice-breaking LNG carrier design will enable year-round sailing on the Northern Sea Route (NSR), including the eastern section, to accelerate the implementation of Russia's plan to increase the volume of cargo on the Northern Sea Route. Compared with the 14 Yamal LNG icebreaker vessels built by Daewoo Shipbuilding, the new LNG vessels built by Red Star Shipyard will have stronger ice-breaking capability and handling characteristics.

Evgeniy Ambrosov, Vice Chairman of Novatek's Management Board, said, "The construction of a new generation of Arctic ice-class LNG fleet for Arctic LNG 2 at Red Star Shipyard will enable the localization of Russian technology for the construction of high-tonnage high-tech vessels. All the ARC7 ice-breaking LNG vessels ordered at Red Star Shipyard will fly Russian flags and be fully manned by Russian crew."

Deliveries of 15 LNG vessels from the Arctic LNG 2 project are scheduled to begin in 2023, with the Russian Register of Shipping (RS) overseeing the construction process and the Russian Foreign Economic Bank (VEB) financing. With these 15 state-of-the-art icebreaker LNG vessels, Arctic LNG 2's LNG cargoes can be shipped year-round to the Asia-Pacific region along the Northern Sea Route.

The 300-meter-long, 48.8-meter-wide LNG carrier, with a cargo compartment capacity of 172,600 cubic meters, will be LNG-based. Its power plant will be 45 megawatts, equivalent to that of a nuclear-powered icebreaker, and can safely transport LNG while breaking ice as thick as 2.1 meters in temperatures of minus 52 degrees Celsius. These LNG vessels will use GTT's Mark III cargo containment system and meet all requirements stipulated by the Russian Federation.

It is understood that Red Star Shipyard is Russia's largest shipbuilding group. A group of Russian companies led by Rosneft was established by relying on the Far East Ship Repair and Construction Center (FESRC) located in Grand Kamen. Arctic LNG 2's icebreaker makes Red Star the first Russian shipyard to build a large LNG carrier and the second shipyard in the world to build the ARC7 icebreaker after Daewoo's shipbuilding.

Red Star Shipyard has no prior experience building large LNG carriers. Considering the high level of technical expertise required to build these complex icebreakers, Red Star Shipyard has chosen Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea as its partner to provide technical assistance for the construction of these ships. The two sides signed the agreement at the Fifth Eastern Economic Forum held in September 2019.

Under the agreement, Red Star will initially focus on lower-tech construction projects such as hulls and general equipment. Of the 15 LNG tankers, Samsung Heavy will be responsible for the construction of the first five, and the steel pretreatment and cutting of the last 10 tankers. The hull substructure of these tankers will also be manufactured at Samsung Heavy's Juji Shipyard.

Arctic LNG 2 is a major LNG development project led by Novatek. Shareholders in the project include Novatek (60 percent), Total of France, China's PetroChina and CNOOC, and Japan's Arctic LNG, a joint venture between Jogmec and Mitsui Corp., which will each hold 10 percent.

The Arctic LNG 2 project consists of three production lines, each with a capacity of 6.6 MMtpy, or a total of 19.8 MMtpy. Novatek plans to put its first production line into operation in 2023, a second in 2024, a third in 2025, and then reach full capacity in 2026. About 80 per cent of the project's output is expected to be exported to the Asia-Pacific region.

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