ChTZ-Uraltrac ships some B10M track units for operations in the Arctic Ocean
13 May 2014 (09:14)
May 13, 2014. ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) shipped a set of nine B10M track units to the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean.
According to the corporation’s press service, the swamp-proof towing tractors and bulldozers were shipped to Yakutia via railways and will then be delivered to the customer by sea.
‘The vehicles are meant for one of Russian oil and gas companies that is currently developing new mineral deposits in the Arctic shelf. The implementation of this complex project means that all the infrastructure necessary for maintaining the deposits, delivering equipment and materials there and delivering oil and natural gas to the continent will have to be built there. This, in turn, means a modern seaport will have to appear there. In a word, large-scale construction will have to take place in the Arctic to ensure the natural gas and oil producers have everything they need, and ChTZ vehicles will be used for the purpose,’ the company reports.
All the vehicles sent to the islands are suited for operation in extremely low temperatures. They are fitted with double glazing of the pit, a pre-start engine heater, and a self-supporting heater in addition to the regular radiator in the pit, which will keep the driver warm even if the engine isn’t on.
‘The tractors made at this Chelyabinsk plant have been used in the Polar North since the thirties. Yet the vehicles that have been sent to the shelf will have to operate in the northernmost place of all the spots they have been to since the start of the new century. The company vehicles haven’t been operated in any higher Arctic latitudes over the last decades yet,’ the company’s press service reports.
According to the corporation’s press service, the swamp-proof towing tractors and bulldozers were shipped to Yakutia via railways and will then be delivered to the customer by sea.
‘The vehicles are meant for one of Russian oil and gas companies that is currently developing new mineral deposits in the Arctic shelf. The implementation of this complex project means that all the infrastructure necessary for maintaining the deposits, delivering equipment and materials there and delivering oil and natural gas to the continent will have to be built there. This, in turn, means a modern seaport will have to appear there. In a word, large-scale construction will have to take place in the Arctic to ensure the natural gas and oil producers have everything they need, and ChTZ vehicles will be used for the purpose,’ the company reports.
All the vehicles sent to the islands are suited for operation in extremely low temperatures. They are fitted with double glazing of the pit, a pre-start engine heater, and a self-supporting heater in addition to the regular radiator in the pit, which will keep the driver warm even if the engine isn’t on.
‘The tractors made at this Chelyabinsk plant have been used in the Polar North since the thirties. Yet the vehicles that have been sent to the shelf will have to operate in the northernmost place of all the spots they have been to since the start of the new century. The company vehicles haven’t been operated in any higher Arctic latitudes over the last decades yet,’ the company’s press service reports.
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