Translation Agency – Golden Hind

For 20 years, Moscow’s “Translation Agency – Golden Hind” has been providing professional linguistic services to companies in 19 countries across three continents. We take pride in the high quality of our services, a fact affirmed not only by the caliber of our clients but also by the positive feedback we receive.

We specialize in large-scale projects within the oil and gas, power engineering, and construction industries. Our company is continually expanding its portfolio by attracting highly qualified translators and editors every month. Our team consists of 48 full-time and over 1,000 freelance professionals with an average experience of 17 years. Every second team member has a technical education, ensuring professionalism and a deep understanding of industry-specific nuances.

When choosing a translation company, it is crucial to prioritize quality over cost. Our agency stands out among thousands of competitors by striving to provide not just a translation but a well-adapted, high-quality content. Many promise low prices, but often their work results in translations riddled with semantic and terminological errors. Unlike them, we guarantee that your text will be not only accurately translated but also stylistically appropriate, considering the cultural and contextual nuances of the target audience. Choose us if you value results.

We continuously optimize and enhance our workflows, successfully implementing the latest industry technologies. If our principles and values resonate with you, let's collaborate.

27 000

– this is the number of pages we translate annually, 70% of these are technical translations.

Our Services

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  Written
  translation

  The most in-demand type of translation due to the diversity of topics and the wide range of its applications.

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  Interpretation
  Services

  The most challenging type of work for a translator, regardless of the language in which the verbal communication occurs.

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  Website
  Translation

  Involves developing a multilingual version of your website.

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  Graphic
  Design

  We offer desktop publishing and graphic design services for materials, regardless of their volume and complexity.

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  Specialized
  Translation

  Our company has extensive experience working with technical, legal, and economic documentation.

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  Notarized
  Translation

  We take a responsible approach to notarized translation, ensuring that it is completed accurately and on time.

Languages of Translation

• Chinese
• German
• Dutch
• Hindi
• Portugal
• English
• Spanish
• Japanese
• Korean
• Arabic
• French
• Italian
• Norvegian
• Turkish

Major Projects

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  2009—2012

  Development of Shtokman gas&condensate field

  50000 pages

  7000 images

  100000 hours

  For three and a half years, we served as the primary contractor for "Shtokman Development AG," providing comprehensive translation services for the project.

  • We translated documentation and offered interpreting services across a wide range of areas, including:
  • Geological and geophysical studies, as well as research work;
  • Drilling and extraction, material and technical support, and laying of underwater pipelines;
  • Construction of a technological vessel;
  • Design of an LNG plant and installation of integrated gas treatment facilities;
  • Construction and transportation;
  • Provision of electricity and communication for the project;
  • Internal corporate policies;
  • Negotiations with government bodies and financial institutions.

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  2007—2015

  Power Plant Modernization Projects

  70000 pages

  43000 images

  120000 hours

  Our company participated in translating documentation during the modernization of several major power plants, including: the Tsimlyansk Hydroelectric Station, the Votkinsk Hydroelectric Station, the Sredneuralskaya GRES, the Jerada Thermal Power Station (Morocco), and the Pakal Dul Hydroelectric Plant (India).

  Key aspects covered in the documentation included: construction and maintenance of power plants and their components (boilers, steam and gas turbines, turbo generators, condensers, air heaters, electrical switchgear, hydro turbines, hydro generators), as well as power lines and automation of thermal energy processes.

  During our collaboration, we translated technical and regulatory documents, including Russian and international standards, various specifications and equipment passports, technological schemes, layout drawings, and diagrams in various formats.

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  2009—2015

  Development of Oil Fields on the Caspian Shelf

  60000 pages

  20000 images

  110000 hours

  We are involved in translating documentation for oil fields on the Caspian shelf: named after Yu. Kuvykin, Yu. Korchagin, V. Filanovsky, and Zapadno-Rakushchnoye.

  The translated documentation includes:

  • Emergency response instructions;
  • Functional requirements and conceptual solutions for well construction, as well as detailed drilling plans;
  • Reports on oil preparation and gas compression, results of inspections of semi-submersible drilling rigs, economic assessments of field development, and risk reduction studies;
  • Corrosion control concepts and material selection for onshore facilities and wells;
  • Technological process and equipment development reports;
  • Technical specifications for designing offshore platform construction.

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  2009—2012

  Construction of the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline

  15000 pages

  5000 images

  25000 hours

  We participated in translating documentation for the construction of the gas pipeline connecting Russia with Western Europe. Throughout the project, we translated a large number of Russian and international standards, drawings, reports, memorandums, brochures, internal instructions, and technical specifications.

  The main part of the documentation focused on:

  • Characteristics of construction conditions and the main solutions for organizing the construction process;
  • Execution of works, including geodetic, linear, earthworks, welding and installation, insulation, pipeline ballasting, foundation construction, pipeline cleaning, and testing;
  • Quality control of the works; Environmental protection measures during construction;
  • Occupational health and industrial safety measures;
  • Fire safety measures.

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Clients

Recommendations

Shell

Wison

Novatek

Rosneft

Rostec

WorleyParsons

VolgogradNIPImorneft

Total S.A.

Russian State Salvage and Resque Service

VNIPIgazdobycha

Shtokman Development

Iberdrola S.A.

Schrack Technik

Gazprom Neft

EnergoStroyEngineering

Why Don’t We List Rates on Our Website?

• Individual Approach

  On many translation company websites, listed rates are merely starting points and can significantly change during the negotiation process, depending on the complexity and urgency of the task, as well as additional services. We prefer to avoid this practice, offering instead to prepare a personalized commercial proposal for each project.

• Transparent Terms

  For clients, knowing the final cost of services is always more important than knowing the rates. We take into account repetitions and matches with translation memory in the documents submitted for evaluation, which is only possible after reviewing the texts. Additionally, the final cost of the translation can differ significantly from the preliminary estimate upon project completion.

• Focus on Large Projects

  We specialize in providing translation services for large-scale technological projects and primarily work with legal entities. Our average project involves thousands of pages of documentation, requiring an individual approach to preparing a commercial proposal.

• Unified Pricing

  Unlike other agencies, we do not use varying pricing for our services. Our goal is to provide clients with high-quality translations without them having to worry about the number of specialists involved in the work.

Quality System

We have developed our own project management system, which guarantees the high quality of our services. When it is necessary to translate multi-page documents in a short time, collective work must be organized precisely—like an assembly line in a car factory. Therefore, we have a well-established project management procedure.

We pay attention to details as if someone's life depends on it. In our work, we use the latest technologies and text processing methods: expanding glossaries of terms and applying CAT tools. As a result, the final product is an authentic translation that maintains terminological and stylistic consistency.

Our quality system has been developed over many years of working on a wide variety of projects. Now we can confidently say that we are capable of solving any translation task set before us.

92 / 100% — the quality index of our services according to Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: we ranked first, ahead of 11 other companies

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