Aker Solutions Delivers Offshore Loading System for Use on Varandey Field

Aker Solutions, a provider of engineering and construction services to the oil and gas industry, has designed and delivered an offshore loading system for use on the Varandey Field in the Barents Sea, offshore Russia.

The system has been installed on a fixed offshore ice-resistant offloading terminal (Foirot), allowing for the offshore transfer of crude oil onto ice-classed shuttle tankers designed for transporting oil in the sensitive Arctic environment.

Aker Solutions has previously delivered offshore loading systems, bow loading and offloading for transfer of crude oil from a production unit to a shuttle tanker, for the North Sea, an environment which is harsh but sub-Arctic.

These specialized loading systems are developed for Arctic conditions and protection of the sensitive Arctic environment which has the highest environmental standards namely, zero spills and zero incidents.

Both the shuttle tanker Vasily Dinkov and the Foirot terminal are equipped with the latest Aker Solutions bow and offloading systems which are designed for Arctic conditions. Aker Solutions has so far received orders for bow loading systems for 12 Arctic shuttle tankers.