Read the transcript: Voice-over On the one hand, a tanker. The fifteenth and final icebreaking LNG carrier responsible for shipping gas from the remote Yamal LNG terminal in the Russian Arctic has now been delivered. Yamal LNG Arc7 Ice-Class Tankers Completed Late Seasonal Voyages along the Northern Sea Route. Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, both subsidiaries of VINCI, have been awarded a contract with JSC Yamal LNG, owned by NOVATEK (80 %) and TOTAL (20 %), to perform an engineering, procurement, supply, construction and commissioning of four cryogenic full-containment LNG storage tanks. The Yamal LNG project will use up to 15 custom-designed Russian arctic classified ARC7 ice-class LNG carriers for year-round shipping to international markets. LNG tanker NIKOLAY EVGENOV with LNG shipment from Sabetta, Yamal, Russia, bound for China, was transiting Northern Sea Route, Russian Arctic, in the wake of LNG tanker CHRISTOPHE DE MARGERIE, carrying the first lot. The 300m-long 172,600m³ LNG carriers can sail at a speed of 19.5kts in open water, and at 5.5kts in 1.5m-thick ice, without icebreaker support. The tankers are among a fleet of 13 specialized icebreakers that are key to shipping LNG from Yamal LNG. Yamal LNG, Icebreaker tankers for innovative shipping. Aker Arctic's co-operation with Yamal LNG included the design development of the LNG-carriers for exports of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the market. An Arctic tanker loading liquefied natural gas at the Yamal LNG plant in the port of Sabetta, Russia. Photo: Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Russia is preparing to make the earliest-ever shipment of liquefied natural gas to Asia, taking advantage of thinning ice in the Arctic Ocean and paving the way for a record-long navigation season this year. Babel/BUT. Each LNG tank will be composed of a 9% nickel […] On the other, an icebreaker. With the LNG tanker Yakov Gakkel now in operation, Yamal LNG has all 15 new Arc7 ice-class LNG tankers specifically built for the project.. Moscow, 18 January 2021. The tanker will have dual classification provided by Bureau Veritas (BV) and Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RMRS). In worst case, the azipod will have to be replaced and the ship placed in a dock for a month. The … The four operational vessels were all in transit Tuesday, according to cFlow, Platts trade flow software. The Eduard Toll and Rudolf Samoylovich were both headed west toward Europe, having picked up cargoes from Yamal LNG in the past week. The new Arc7 ice-class tankers are designed to ensure year-round navigation along the Northern Sea Route, including its Eastern part, and will have increased icebreaking and maneuvering characteristics as compared to the previous type of Arctic tankers currently used by the Yamal LNG … That would mean that Novatek will get significantly less capacity to export its Yamal LNG to the markets. Yamal LNG, Icebreaker tankers for innovative shipping. Novatek announced that the Arc7 ice-class Arctic LNG tanker “Christophe de Margerie” chartered by the Yamal LNG project successfully completed an independent passage along the Eastbound part of the Northern Sea Route (“NSR”) on the 16th January at 20:20 MSK, having reached the Bering Strait in 11 days with an average safe speed of 9.6 […] Both tankers were transiting NSR without icebreakers, in record-low temperatures, and record breaking time of the year, in January. The Nikolay Yevgenov is only of 15 Arc7 icebreaking carriers that serve the Yamal LNG project. LNG tankers for the Arctic project. It is owned by Teekay and China LNG Shipments. The 170,000 m3-sized vessels are currently being constructed at