The ship, which is designed to assist oil shipping from the Varandey terminal in the Pechora Sea to Murmansk, will have to spend three weeks in the Norwegian port because of a generator error, Knut Berg, Head of the Kirkenes Agency company says to BarentsObserver.
The reason is that the German generator manufacturer insists that the technical operation is done in Kirkenes and not in the nearby Murmansk. It will be the Kirkenes-based Kimek company, which will open the hull and replace the German-made generator.
-These kind of operations can easily and efficiently be made in Kirkenes, Mr. Berg underlines. He says the shipping and service companies in Kirkenes are prepared for new ship service operations for the quickly developing shipping activities in the region.
As reported by BarentsObserver, the Kirkenes companies in January this year successfully handled a jack-up operation with the Energy Exerter rig. That showed that we can do these kind of operation, the Kirkenes Agency representative says, adding that Kirkenes also could take on supplement base functions for the Shtokman project in the Barents Sea.
Lukoil’s 4600 ton deadweight and 100 meter long icebreaker Varandey was built by the Keppel Singmarine yard in Singapore and handed over to the Russian oil company in March this year.
