Russian seaport construction approved

The project documentation, Construction of Seaport Facilities near Sabetta village at Yamal Peninsula, including creation of a navigable approach canal in the Ob Mouth, was approved following amendments to dredging works, plans for ice protective structure and the creation of an artificial land plot.

The port facilities under construction, which is carried out by JSC USK MOST, include an approaching canal, water areas of the auxiliary berths, coastal aids to navigation and a control-correcting station.

Rosmorport says these facilities are designed to provide for “the execution of a range of technological and organisational steps to enable reception of sea and river cargo supplied in the framework of the arrangement of the South and Tambey gas-condensate deposit; construction of a seaport and a liquid natural gas plant from 2014 till 2018; and functioning of the seaport along with the operation of the South and Tambey gas and condensate deposit”.

The facility is expected to be fully operational by December 2015.