Sovcomflot Archives - Baird Maritime

March 7, 2022

COLUMN | Surprises from the war in Ukraine: BP in Mauritania, P&O Maritime, USM Holdings, Viking Supply Ships, Sevnor, OSM, PXGEO [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on March 7, 2022. Posted in Anchor Handling, Boxship World, Dry Cargo World, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Seabed Mining, Ship World Features, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

Last week (here) we looked at the impact of the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine. Brent crude closed on Friday at US$118 per barrel. Russian artillery and missiles po ..

June 9, 2020

First steel cut for second tanker in series for Sovcomflot

Written by Baird Maritime on June 9, 2020. Posted in Tanker World.

Russia’s Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex has cut the first steel for a new Aframax tanker ordered by local operator Sovcomflot. The vessel will be the second in a serie ..

September 13, 2019

Sovcomflot, NYK Line JVs to get US$176 million refinancing for LNG carrier pair

Written by Baird Maritime on September 13, 2019. Posted in Gas Tanker World.

Joint venture companies belonging to Sovcomflot and NYK Line have signed a new US$176 million non-recourse credit facility for eight years with international banks Sumito ..

February 12, 2021

COLUMN | A tale of six restructurings: Polarcus, Seadrill, Diamond Offshore, Siem Offshore, SeaBird Exploration, and Pacific Radiance [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on February 12, 2021. Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Seabed Mining, Standby, Rescue & Emergency Services, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

Charles Dickens offered only A Tale of Two Cities. This week, I offer a tale of no less than six restructurings, as the crisis in the offshore sector comes to a head. One ..

November 8, 2019

SCF signs financing and time-charter agreements for first icebreaking gas carrier for Arctic LNG 2 project

Written by Baird Maritime on November 8, 2019. Posted in Gas Tanker World.

SCF Group and VEB.RF Group, a Russian financial institution, have signed an agreement for lease financing of the lead ship in a series of icebreaking LNG carriers expecte ..

September 12, 2019

Novatek, Sovcomflot form LNG shipping JV

Written by Baird Maritime on September 12, 2019. Posted in Gas Tanker World, Icebreaking.

Novatek and Sovcomflot have established a joint venture company that will focus on managing the construction and operations of Arctic ice-class LNG carriers. The new comp ..

December 23, 2020

Polarcus secures 4D project in the Far East

Written by Baird Maritime on December 23, 2020. Posted in Subsea Surveying.

Polarcus has entered into a memorandum of agreement Sovcomflot group subsidiary SCF GEO for the provision of 4D marine seismic acquisition services in the Far East. The s ..

October 10, 2019

Sovcomflot awards two-month charter extension for survey vessel Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Written by Baird Maritime on October 10, 2019. Posted in Subsea Surveying.

Russia’s Sovcomflot has exercised an option to extend the bareboat charter for the Polarcus survey vessel Vyacheslav Tikhonov, formerly known as Polarcus Selma, by ..

June 11, 2019

Sovcomflot extends charter for survey ship Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Written by Baird Maritime on June 11, 2019. Posted in Subsea Surveying.

Polarcus has confirmed that the survey vessel originally named Polarcus Selma will continue to operate with Sovcomflot under a bareboat charter extended by two y ..