The Russian shipowner is shelling out EUR 100m ($138m) for the vessel for delivery in 2016, it announced today.
SCF will operate the 100 metre long ship under a 20-year contract with Sakhalin Energy, a venture led by Russian energy giant Gazprom that also includes international oil major Shell.
As part of the deal SCF and Sakhalin Energy have also signed pre-contracts for three multifunctional icebreaking standby vessels.
This is the third offshore support vessel that SCF has ordered at Arctech following the 4,200-dwt Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov delivered in 2012 and 2013 respectively.
In total the company has four ice-class PSVs in the water one of which supports the Sahkalin 2 project.
Sakhalin 2 is located in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia’s Far East and includes oil platforms as well as Russia’s first and only LNG exporting facility.
