Gazprom Marketing and Trading signed a number of agreements to promote Russian participation in the construction of LNG tankers. GAZPROM Germania Group
Gazprom Marketing and Trading took into operation the new LNG tanker Lena River
During a ceremony held on Friday, October 4, 2013 at the HHI shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) commissioned a new gas tanker (serial number 2557), named Lena River. .
The Lena River tanker was chartered by Gazprom Marketing and Trading Group (GM&T) from the Greek LNG carrier operator Dainagaz and will be used by GM&T for several years. This is the third vessel chartered by the GM&T group from Dynagas, after the tanker Reka Ob, which last year became the world’s first LNG carrier to sail along the Northern Sea Route, and the tanker Reka Yenisei, which was put into operation in July.
GM&T's ever-expanding fleet of LNG carriers will be used to supply its growing global LNG trading portfolio.
The Lena River is a high-tech vessel with membrane-type cargo tanks with a cargo capacity of 155 thousand cubic meters. m, equipped with a three-fuel diesel-electric power plant. The ice class of the tanker is 1A and equipment for use in winter conditions allows the gas carrier to operate in ice conditions, including within the Northern Sea Route during open navigation.
Like the Ob River and Yenisei River tankers, the vessel will be operated by an international crew, including graduates of the State University of Maritime and River Fleet named after. Admiral S. O. Makarov (St. Petersburg, Russia).
The Lena River tanker is traditionally named after one of the three great Siberian rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean, along with the Ob River and Yenisei River tankers.
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Gazprom Marketing and Trading Limited
Gazprom Marketing & Trading Limited (GM&T) is a 100% subsidiary of OJSC Gazprom (“ Gazprom"), registered in Great Britain. OJSC Gazprom is the world's largest gas company, owning 18% of the world's natural gas reserves and about 70% of Russian gas reserves. GM&T was founded in 1999 in London to carry out marketing and trading operations in free European markets. GM&T is responsible for optimizing Gazprom's energy raw materials assets and increasing sales volumes through the use of its marketing and trading network. The company trades energy commodities, including gas, electricity, oil and petroleum products, carbon credits, LNG and foreign exchange; its subsidiaries are located in the USA, Singapore, France, Germany, UK and Switzerland.
Department maritime transport and logistics provides safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation services to the Gazprom Marketing and Trading Limited (“GM&T”) Group in order to support GM&T’s multi-commodity trading activities, providing transportation of a wide range of products: LNG, LPG, oil and petroleum products, and also helium.
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Today, within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum - 2013, the Gazprom Group, represented by Gazprom Marketing and Trading (GM&T), signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with OJSC United shipbuilding corporation» (USC) on the construction of LNG gas tankers, as well as an Agreement on strategic partnership in the classification and certification of LNG gas tankers with the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and a Memorandum of Understanding with OAO Sovcomflot.
As part of the same ceremony, JSC Far Eastern Center for Shipbuilding and Ship Repair, on behalf of USC, signed Technology Transfer Agreements with several leading South Korean shipyards - world leaders in shipbuilding, as well as a Memorandum of Understanding with GTT, largest producer cargo systems for LNG gas tankers.
All these documents are part of a strategic initiative aimed at increasing Russian participation in all segments of Gazprom Group’s LNG transportation, including the development of LNG maritime transportation technologies, shipbuilding, ship repair, commercial operations and maritime personnel. One of the main components of its implementation is the construction and development of the Zvezda shipbuilding complex in the town of Bolshoy Kamen, Primorsky Territory.
The signed documents are aimed at developing cooperation in terms of organizing the participation of the Zvezda Insurance Company in the construction program of up to 13 new ice-class gas tankers with delivery from 2017 to 2021 for the future needs of the Gazprom Group. It is expected that Zvezda SK will be involved in the construction of each vessel under this program, and will initially produce base units, mega units and LNG cargo systems in partnership with one of the South Korean shipyards. After completing the construction of the Zvezda infrastructure, from 2020 the construction of LNG tankers will be able to be completely transferred to this shipyard.
Nikolai Grigoriev, Director of the International Shipping and Logistics Department of Gazprom Marketing and Trading, commenting on the signing of this important package of documents, said: “We are proud to have witnessed this very important event, made possible thanks to working together GM&T and our partners for the benefit strategic goal increasing Russian participation in the construction of LNG gas tankers for the Gazprom Group. Today’s signing confirmed that the course we took in 2010 to involve key Russian partners in the design and construction of the most modern gas carriers, to train highly qualified gas carriers for command and rating crews, and to expand our global LNG trading business, which now covers all markets and supply routes, including the Northern Sea Route. We will continue to move towards achieving our dream of Russian LNG being delivered to Gazprom’s consumers on ships built in Russia and crewed by Russian crews.”
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Gazprom Marketing & Trading Limited (GM&T) is a 100% subsidiary of the Gazprom Group, registered in the UK. OJSC Gazprom is the world's largest gas company, owning 17% of the world's natural gas reserves and about 70% of Russian gas reserves. GM&T was founded in London in 1999 to provide marketing and trading activities in free European markets.
Since 2005, GM&T has been responsible for the marketing, transportation and trading of LNG for the Gazprom Group, and today the company can carry out 24-hour market operations between London, Houston and Singapore.
In 2011, Gazprom Marketing & Trading Switzerland (a division of GM&T in Switzerland) was created to further develop trading in oil, LPG and LNG, taking advantage of Switzerland's strategic advantage as a central region of Europe.
