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.

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.

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