OREANDA-NEWS. The Board of Directors of OAO Sovcomflot held a meeting to consider, amongst other things, the election of a new Chairman. At the meeting, following a unanimous decision, Mr Ilya Klebanov was re-elected as Chairman of the Board of OAO Sovcomflot, a position he has held since 25 November 2011.

SCF Sovcomflot (OAO Sovcomflot) is Russia’s largest shipping company and a world leader in hydrocarbon transportation by sea, as well as offshore exploration and the extraction of oil & gas. The SCF fleet specialises in hydrocarbon shipping in challenging icy conditions and includes 160 vessels (owned and chartered), with a combined deadweight of over 12 million tonnes. One third of these vessels are classified as high ice class.

Sovcomflot supports large-scale energy projects in Russia and the rest of the world, including: Sakhalin-I, Sakhalin-II, Varandey, Prirazlomnoye, Tangguh, Escobar and Peregrino. The company is registered in St. Petersburg and has representative offices in Moscow, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Vladivostok, London, Limassol, Madrid, Singapore and Dubai. www.scf-group.ru
 
Ilya Klebanov:
Born 7 May 1951 in Leningrad.
In 1974 graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M.I. Kalinin, with an engineering major in electro-physics.
1974-1977 – Electro-physics engineer at NPO Electron.
In 1977 began work as a Design Engineer at the Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Association (LOMO).
In 1989-1990 served as a Chief Engineer of the medical equipment and consumer goods complex of LOMO. In August 1992, became the CEO of the company.
Since 1994 - Member of the Council for Industry and Enterprise under the President of Russia.
In January 1998 was appointed the First Deputy Governor of St. Petersburg, and headed the City Committee of the Economy and Industrial Policy.
In May 1999 he was appointed the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the military-industrial complex.

Since 17 October 2001, in addition to the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Russia he was appointed the head of the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology. In the spring of 2003, he suggested the idea of establishing an integrated shipbuilding holding, now JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation.
2003-2011 - Authorised Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwest Federal District.
Since 25 November 2011 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Sovcomflot.

Married, with a daughter and son.