Report: DSME will build 9 Yamal LNG tankers for $2.8 bln

MOSCOW, Jul 8 (PRIME) -- South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has won a U.S. $2.8 billion tender to build nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers for Yamal LNG project, 60%-owned by Russian independent gas producer Novatek, Bloomberg reported citing its sources on Tuesday.

According to the agreement with DSME, Canadian company Teekay in partnership with China Shipping LNG is to supply six Arc7 tankers with deadweight of 170,000 cubic meters for the Yamal LNG project, while each tanker costs $316 million, and Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines will buy and operate three of the vessels.

Under the project, an LNG plant with an annual capacity of 16.5 million tonnes will be built to process resources of the Yuzhno-Tambeiskoye field on the Yamal Peninsula in Russia’s north.

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