Tanker designs for whitefield developments

摘要

As oil and gas exploration in the harsh Arctic environment increases, it is presenting new challenges for the designers of the tankers and gas carriers that are expected to be the workhorses that bring those resources to market. The industry is already seeing vastly increased transportation of oil from the Baltic with many new owners and operators sending tankers into the main oil terminals in the Gulf of Finland, such as Primorsk, Vysotsk, Tallinn, and Muuga in the dead of winter. But the most recent horizon is much farther north, in the ice-covered waters of the Arctic polar region north of Russia.