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Offshore Russia other cargo, and pipes and mod- shipment hubs to fnal destinations.

Kåre Storvik ules for installation in the east. For Annual oil transport from Russia

After a long career instance, hard rock aggregates from and along the Norwegian coast for in engineering,

Tschudi Aggregates are exported petroleum resources greatly exceeds design, fabrication, to Russia for use both on land and ten million tonnes. The vessels in and project manage- offshore—all the way east to Yamal. use are relatively new and have ment, including double-hull design.

holding senior roles at Kvaerner,

Seek locals’ advice

Trans-shipment hubs in the west

Storvik now provides business

Interest in the North is strong and include, Kirkenes, or if rail is in- development services and project growing among international actors. volved, Narvik. A rail connection implementation services in Norway

Northern area ports and businesses between Kirkenes and Finland is and Russia.

fnd it important to build relation- also a possibility. ships with international oil compa- nies, suppliers, and service provid- ers in order to see and be seen, to hear and be heard, and to take part in the development. It is no longer

SamSon high-performance winch lineS enough to deal with Statoil.

Therefore Northerners gather to- gether and make annual pilgrimages

GO DEEP to the Offshore Technology Confer- ence (OTC) in Houston, Moscow

International Oil & Gas Exhibition (MIOGE), Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) conference in Stavanger, and

Offshore Europe conference in Aber- deen. We will meet you there for fur- ther talks—look for Arctic Europe.

Logistics

Last year’s traffc on the Northern

Sea Route (NSR—a shipping lane between the Atlantic and Pacifc

Oceans above the Russian mainland) increased to 46 ships carrying al- most 1.3 million tons of cargo. Obvi-

Perdido Spar Project: Lightweight traction winch on a cantilevered deck holds 9,200 feet of 2-1/2" diameter Quantum-12 and lifts up to 90,000 pounds. ously, this is only a beginning. High interest ensures that this route will develop quickly—and the develop- ment will be an adventure in itself— both for the world’s sea routes and the petroleum industry. We have

STRONG RELIABLE EFFICIENT seen petroleum cargo moving in both

Samson high-performance winch lines go deeper than steel wire: directions in the past year.

> 85% lighter than same > greater capacity in

In the future, we will see year- size steel wire ultra-deep water round operation of the NSR. This will be made possible by a feet of > reduces deck weight > neutrally buoyant ice-class cargo ships that will be able

Talk to the experts at Samson and put their to plough through winter ice at an experience and extensive testing to work on acceptable speed without assistance your next winch line or heavylift project. from icebreakers.

Visit SamsonRope.com for the full case study

These ships will deliver between on the Perdido Spar winch line project.

trans-shipment hubs in ice-free wa- ters in the Barents Sea and past the ®

Bering Strait in the Northern Pacifc

Ocean. Normal feeder ships will

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