Shipowner Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has inked long-term charter deals on two of its LNG-fuelled aframax tankers with Russia’s Sakhalin-2 project.

Sovcomflot president and chief executive Igor Tonkovidov signed 10-year charters with Sakhalin Energy chief executive Roman Dashkov at the 24th St Petersburg International Economic Forum for the 113,300-dwt Korolev Prospect and Vernadsky Prospect (both built 2019).