Good to see the Russkies are buying some nice safe Western aircraft instead of the POS Ilyushins/Tupolevs/Antonovs/rusting pieces of junk. Grant SYD QF Scotty wrote: > Howdy guys > > It is pretty much safe to tell now, seeing as a public statement has = > been made, that the Dash 8s will be operating with SAT Airlines = > (Sakhalinski Aviatrassy) out of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.=20 > > Details are below, although no mention of aircraft is made, I can assure = > you that the Dash 8 Srs 100 is the chosen aircraft for this job. > > Cheers > > Scotty > > ----- > > Exxon Neftegas Limited has awarded Sakhalinskiye Aviatrassy a major = > five-year contract for aviation services. The contract is among the = > largest ever awarded to a Sakhalin company in the framework of the = > Sakhalin shelf projects. > > Under the contract, SAT will provide exclusive private flight operations = > for domestic flights on Sakhalin and to the Russian mainland, as well as = > internationally to Japan. SAT will acquire two 34-passenger turboprop = > aircrafts, and train up to thirty local staff to operate and maintain = > them. > > The contract will provide aviation service to the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas = > project throughout the first phase of its development of the Chayvo and = > Odoptu oil fields, offshore the northeast coast of Sakhalin island. At = > $US 4.0 billion capital investment, the first phase of the Sakhalin-1 = > project will be the most significant investment under a Production = > Sharing Agreement in Russia, and the first to include Russian partners = > /Rosneft and SMNG/, in addition to SODECO /Japan/, ONGC Videsh Ltd. = > /India/, and the operator ENL, a subsidiary of the American oil major = > ExxonMobil. Neil Duffin, President of ENL, stated that ``we will = > continue to seek Russian expertise and integrate our collective skills = > and experience to address the many challenges involved in this project = > to achieve the maximum value for all stakeholders. We will also continue = > working to identify and contract qualified Russian companies and = > organizations with the skills and experience required to carry out the = > work in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.`` > > /Rigzone.com/