DNV agreement with Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
Posted: 08 January 2004
DNV has recently signed a new cooperative agreement with the Russian
Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) in DNV’s corporate headquarters
at Høvik, Norway.
The agreement, signed by Sergey S. Koshchy, senior vice-director
general of RS and Miklos Konkoly-Thege, president and chief executive
officer of DNV, covers the classification of ships and mobile offshore
units (both newbuildings and ships in operation), and the certification
of material and components, consulting, verification and the provision
of third-party services to the oil and gas industry.
According to Terje Staalstrøm, head of DNV class policy and
quality management, the agreement will benefit both parties. “We
will put our resources at each other’s disposal in order to
be able to conduct our business with competent personnel in any
location worldwide,” he says. “In practical terms, the
agreement means that the Russians will make their resources available
to us in Russia, and we will do the same for them in the rest of
the world.”
DNV previously had an agreement with the national classification
society of the former Soviet Union. However, the objective of the
new agreement is to redefine how the two societies are to cooperate
worldwide. DNV’s North Sea experience and RS’ local
knowledge and resources strengthen the possibilities to win service
contracts where both Western and Russian oil companies are involved.
The agreement offers DNV the opportunity to provide services to
the offshore development projects in the Sakhalin area and, in the
future, to the north of Siberia.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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