Astrakhan Branch News

Accommodation module – AMP-2 Took Out to the Caspian Sea

A tow caravan composed of transport and installation barge, on which an accommodation module platform AMP-2 of Vzmorie tug boat, two Yak and Zubr pushers were placed, completed transition from the Krasnye Barrikady shipyard on the Volga-Caspian Seaway Canal (VCSC) and on July 5, 2016 took out to the Caspian Sea.

After taking out to the Caspian Sea the barge with platform will proceed to LSP-1 drilling/operational platform on V. Filanovsky field in the Northern part of the Caspian sea.

The successful operation of towing a large-sized object along the VCSC directly involved by the seaports of Astrakhan and Olya pilots and VTS operators, vessels and tidal gauges of Navigation and Hydrographic Support Service of the Astrakhan Branch, which were carrying out maintenance of hydrographic works along the route of the caravan.