A sail-away ceremony, held at Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard on Geoje Island in South Korea, was attended by top executives from Sakhalin 2 shareholders Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi.

Samsung and Russian government officials were also in attendance at the ceremony, which took place on Tuesday.

Sakhalin Energy is currently targeting 4 June as the sailing date for the topsides, which will be transported by a specially built T-shape barge.

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