Oil transported by shuttle tankers to Makhachkala where it fed to the Transneft's pipeline system.
The fleet consists of 41 shuttle tankers, chemical carriers and product tankers.
In 1984, the company got its first offshore loading contract with Statoil for two shuttle tankers.
A shuttle tanker is a ship designed for oil transport from an off-shore oil field as an alternative to constructing oil pipelines.
Commonly used on shuttle tankers while loading from a FPSO.
The oil in the storage tanks is then removed by a shuttle tanker.
It handles four million tonnes of crude oil per year, shipped in by small shuttle tankers from Arkhangelsk.
The portfolio consists of product tankers, shuttle tankers, and chemical tankers.
Oil from Helix Producer 1 was to be offloaded by a shuttle tanker.
It is permanently stationed in the field and the crude oil is exported by shuttle tankers.