SCV for the Caspian Sea being constructed at Baku Shipyard

The 155m-long subsea construction vessel SCV) with 31,600 kW of electrical power is costing US$378 million. Customer is the British-Azerbaijani company BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) Ltd, with British partner the oil group BP. The vessel should be delivered in 2017.
After delivery, the new vessel will be deployed at the Shah Deniz field, appr. 70 kilometres offshore Azerbaijan, to install subsea structures between 2017 and 2027, said Baku Shipyard.
The yard is also currently completing construction of three passenger vessels ordered by the Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company. Each vessel can take about 80 passengers. They should be delivered by this April. Baku Shipyard is a joint venture between Azerbaijan’s oil group SOCAR (65 percent shareholding), AIK (25 percent ) and Singapore yard Keppel Offshore & Marine (10 percent) and was officially opened in September 2013.