OREANDA-NEWS. April 19, 2011. The Aframax oil tanker Primorsky Prospect, owned by SCF Group, became the first ship to load at the new Russian terminal ‘Rosneftbunker’ in the port of Ust-Luga (Lenigradskiy Region).

Safe mooring operations were facilitated by the Rosnefteflot (a joint venture of Rosneft and SCF Group) tugs – Radomir, Dobrynya and Dunai, designed to operate in the harsh climate of the Gulf of Finland, in the Baltic Sea, and capable of escorting large tankers.

Primorsky Prospect, built in 2010, is a tanker of 114,100 tonnes dwt, classified 1B ice class. The vessel’s dimensions are: length overall – 250 metres; breadth (moulded) – 44 metres; draft (summer) – 15 metres. The vessel is designed to operate in the Russian part of the Baltic and Far East, to provide hydrocarbons transportation from the ports of Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Kozmino.

The Group’s evolving leadership in the provision of transportation services for Russia’s energy exports has become something of a tradition. The tankers Petrokrepost and Liteyny Prospect, owned by SCF Group, were the first vessels handled in the initial and secondary development phases of the oil terminal at Primorsk. The tanker Petropavlovsk was the first large tanker to transport liquid hydrocarbons by sea from the port of Vysotsk. The Arctic shuttle tanker Vasily Dinkov delivered the first shipment of oil from the Varandey Fixed Offshore Ice-Resistant Off-loading Terminal. The LNG tanker Grand Aniva, constructed for Sovcomflot together with its Japanese partners, carried the first shipment of Russian liquefied natural gas from Sakhalin Island. The tanker Moscow University ( part of the Novoship fleet and a member of SCF Group) transported the first oil shipment from the Kozmino terminal (Primorskiy Region). In January 2011 the product tanker SCF Neva performed the pilot loading of fuel oil from the terminal in Ust-Luga.

The tanker Primorsky Prospect loaded about 93,000 tonnes of fuel oil, to a permissible draft, from Russia’s latest oil products terminal in the Baltic Region.