Tobolsk Project Petrochemical
Tobolsk Project Petrochemical Cargo Highlight Total Volume Complex Full Charter Tight Schedule Remote Ports Two splitter units 261,000 FRT Transshipment ~30,000 FRT Matching short Involved weighing 920 MT shipped for two Operations carried in one navigational Without landside each, 106 m long contracts On anchorage single voyage time frames infrastructure Case Study: Tobolsk Project
In direct cooperation, deugro Hanau and deugro Moscow executed deliveries of equipment for two major engineering, procurement and construction companies (EPCs) from Germany and France during the 2016, 2017 and 2018 shipping periods. The equipment was shipped to the biggest integrated complex for the production of polymers in Russia, located in Tobolsk.
This petrochemical complex field of gas chemistry, located in is Russia’s first world-scale Western Siberia. The temperatures manufacturing facility. It includes in winter fall to as low as minus a steam cracker for the production 40 degrees Celsius and, when of ethylene, propylene and combined with icy winds, make butane-butylene fraction (BBF), as working conditions extreme for all well as polyethylene units and a involved. In summer, the soil turns polypropylene unit. The products wet, which creates obstacles for any manufactured are designated for work on the ground. the textile and packaging industries and will also go towards the Due to the intense weather production of car body parts and conditions, deliveries are very consumer goods. difficult to perform. Heavy plant equipment can only be delivered Experience the complete This case study describes how via the Tobolsk waterways within transportation and watch the deugro provided top-class logistical a short navigational period of project videos on YouTube: solutions for both EPCs to deliver approximately 45 days between deugro group – Tobolsk all the cargo on time and within July and August. A delay of just a budget. few days could result in the delivery being postponed to the next summer. To counteract the weather Remote location conditions, deliveries have to be of Tobolsk, Russia meticulously planned, considering the construction schedule, delivery Tobolsk is a town in Tyumen Oblast, sequences, cargo readiness, Russia, located at the confluence opening of the navigational periods of the Tobol and Irtysh Rivers, one and, of course, the mobilization of of the most remote areas in Russia. the equipment such as barges and Transshipment on anchorage It is a large industrial center in the tugs. onto barge at Novy Port
2 3 Project execution deugro was awarded two contracts from major EPCs for delivering equipment to the massive petrochemical complex in Tobolsk, Russia. Both scopes were successfully executed by the centralized project control tower in Hanau (near Frankfurt), Germany alongside deugro Moscow (onshore coordination office) for all local Russian coordination.
Water wash column lifted in Ulsan New Port, South Korea
Second phase in 2017 Highlights Within the second navigational The first shipment already marked period, deugro delivered another a highlight: A full charter of MV 68,000 FRT to Tobolsk, this time Happy Sky carrying approximately with seven full-charter vessels from 30,000 FRT in one single voyage. various loading ports in the Far The reason for choosing this East and Europe. As the previous sophisticated, state-of-the-art transshipment operations at heavy lift vessel, which is equipped Transshipment of C3 splitter Sabetta had proven to work well, it with two x 900 SWL cranes, was due onto barges in the remote was decided to transship all items the weight and complexity of the area of Kirkenes, Norway to the Port of Sabetta again. cargo originating from Ulsan, South Korea. Ethylene cracker plant with six full-charter ocean vessels A total of 11 barge voyages To allow the highest flexibility in from various loading ports in the were necessary to deliver all the terms of delivery sequence due During 2017, a record number of Because of the short navigational Far East and Europe to the Port material on the approximately to changes in construction, it was 25 barge trips were shuttling on the Project Data time frame, the scope was of Sabetta. This port is located far 1,500 kilometer river voyage. Each mutually decided with the client to Ob/Irtysh River between Sabetta Ethylene Cracker Plant divided into two movements of away from the normal shipping transport took about 10 to 14 days. set up a customs bonded area at and the Tobolsk jetty. Although the • Client: German EPC approximately 63,000 FRT in 2016 routes in the North Arctic of Russia. the Port of Antwerp. All materials freight volume for 2017 was similar • Cargo: Heavy lift and and 68,000 FRT in 2017. The scope After arriving at Sabetta, all cargo Only one vessel was not discharged from the various loading ports to the volume shipped in 2016, the oversized equipment included only heavy and oversized was directly discharged onto at Sabetta, but instead deugro in the Far East were shipped quantity of items nearly doubled. • Cargo highlight: cargo that could not be transported waiting barges. These barges had chose the remote Port of Kirkenes prior to the navigational period In addition, the cargo was sourced 2 C3 splitter units (106 x by road, including extremely heavy been purposely mobilized from the in Norway for the transshipment into Antwerp for consolidation. from more vendors and loading 8.5 x 9 m / 920 MT each) items with lengths of up to Russian hinterland and Europe to onto barges. These four barges This allowed our client to pick ports. • Navigational period: 106 meters and weights of up to receive the equipment for onwards (with a unit weight of 1,250 metric and choose on short notice the 2016 to 2017 920 metric tons per unit. transportation via the Ob/Irtysh tons each) were mobilized from items required on the site, since • Total volume: 131,000 FRT River system to the purpose-built Rotterdam by a self-geared heavy the transit time from Antwerp to First phase in 2016 jetty at the Tobolsk job site. lift vessel with open hatch sailing. Sabetta is only about seven days. The cargo was delivered to Tobolsk
4 5 Side Story: Northern Sea Route (NSR)
The Northern Sea Route (NSR), also known as the Northeast Passage, is a trade route through the Arctic connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This arctic shipping lane offers various advantages over the traditional routing via the Suez Canal. Vessels plying this route can benefit from faster transit as well as less fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, and they can avoid the High Risk Areas (HRAs) of the Coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden.
Discharge of overdimensional cargo on anchorage at Novy Port
Polyethylene processing In total, deugro chartered three plant ocean-going vessels for this scope, with all of these discharged at Novy This contract included not only Port onto a total of 13 barges for heavy lift and oversized cargo, but the onward journey via the Ob/ also general cargo, full container Irtysh River system to the Tobolsk loads, trucking and multimodal jetty. movements from origins around the world to the Tobolsk job site in Highlight Russia. Among the most difficult The remote Novy Port is located tasks for the project team at approximately 300 nautical miles The NSR played an important role of Sabetta and Novy Port, located merchant vessels to arrive in order Project Data deugro Hanau was the dispatch of south of Sabetta within the Gulf of in the successful execution of the off the Siberian Coast in Russia, via to jointly proceed as a convoy Polyethylene Processing more than 1,500 truckloads from Ob and does not have any landside Tobolsk Project. Some of the long- the NSR. through the NSR. Plant free carrier (FCA) vendor premises infrastructure. All cargo needed to lead items sourced in Asia were • Client: French EPC all over Europe and Asia to the final be discharged on anchorage while urgently required at the site due to Sailing the NSR requires special Over 30 vessels chartered by • Cargo: All equipment job site. facing the harsh local weather and the client’s ambitious construction know-how and experience with deugro successfully sailed through relating to a polyethylene hostile environment. schedule. A timely arrival could only local authorities and permission the NSR between 2015 and 2017 plant Parallel to the ongoing general be achieved by sailing through the from the Northern Sea Route for the various projects handled by • Cargo highlight: cargo shipments shipped by NSR—cutting the vessel’s journey Administration (NSRA) in advance. deugro in the Arctic Region. 2 polymerization reactors, rail and truck, the navigational by almost 7,000 nautical miles and Detailed planning and on-time 340 MT each period in summer 2017 was also around 25 days. scheduling is of utmost importance, • Navigational period: 2017, used to deliver the heavy and since vessels usually sail the NSR with general cargo shipped oversized plant equipment via deugro only considered suitable in a convoy accompanied by ice- in 2016, 2017 and 2018 the Northern Sea Route. To avoid ice-classed vessels to carry breaking vessels. After passing the • Total volume: the congestion at the Port of the critical components for Bering Strait and sailing through 130,000 FRT over all Sabetta, it was decided to conduct the ethylene cracker and the the Chukchi Sea, the vessels wait transportation modes the transshipment operation (on polyethylene processing plants at the Port of Pevek, located in the anchorage) in the arctic area of Reactor alongside from the various loading ports in East Siberian Sea, for the assisting Novy Port. Ortona Port, Italy the Far East to the discharge Port ice-breaking vessels and other
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