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Article: Icebreaker: Sakhalin-1 Orders Supply Ships From Aker Kvaerner.(Brief Article)
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- NEFTE Compass
- Article date:
- September 10, 2003
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Exxon Mobil has signed a contract with Finnish shipyard Masa-Yards, a unit of Norway's Aker Kvaerner Technologies, to buy two 100-meter icebreakers to deliver supplies to the offshore Sakhalin-1 project operated by Exxon. The two ships, which are to be delivered in 2005, are estimated to cost around $65 million each.
"These contracts are the first contracts for icebreakers from Finland to Russia since the construction of the nuclear icebreakers Taymyr and Vaygach in the 1980s," Jorma Eloranta, chief executive of Masa-Yards, said.
The vessels will be used in the Sea of Okhotsk where temperatures can reach minus 40C, causing ice jams up to 20 meters deep ...