Ships & Yards – Page 53
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News'Island Performer': inventive inheritance
What was wanted was an ''SUV of the ocean’, a demanding build customised not only for riserless light well intervention (RLWI) but also for IMR work. However, ‘says Stevie Knight, ''Island Performer'' was delivered by Ulstein against the clock, a mere 18 months from signing.
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NewsThe UT story: 40 years of vessel success
New designs and concepts continue to flow from the Rolls-Royce offshore family; John Barnes looks at the 40-year history of the UT family of offshore support ships.
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NewsOffshore crew transport gets larger and faster
Australian shipbuilder and designer Incat Tasmania has recently christened what it claims to the world’s largest and fastest crew boat.
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NewsMeyer/Finland talks: a refreshing change
Meyer Werft talks with the Finnish Government about the possible acquisition of STX Oy and its cruise ship building facilities in Turku were still going on when ''The Motorship'' went to press, says Tom Todd.
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News‘Sonne’ kicks off German research fleet revamp
German Chancellor Angela Merkel put the finishing touches to the building of Germany’s biggest and most expensive research ship to date by naming and launching the €124.4 million ‘Sonne’.
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NewsVariety marks flexible German newbuilding
Meyer Werft’s delivery of its biggest-ever cruise ship and its mind-boggling €1.6 billion order for two more 164,600gt Breakaway Plus newbuilds highlight German newbuilding this autumn: but they are not the only highlights in an active year which has seen a variety of orders and deliveries as the dust settles ...
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NewsCombining best features of diesel electric and mechanical propulsion
Dag Pike looks at a Dutch innovation in diesel electric propulsion, fitted to an offshore supply vessel for service in the US, which is claimed to provide substantial fuel savings and increased flexibility.
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NewsAdept breed of pipelayer shaped by Brazilian needs
Subsea7’s newbuild pipelaying vessel, which has been built in the Netherlands and tailored to the specialised needs of the Brazilian offshore oil and gas market, is described by David Tinsley.
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NewsSetting standards in pipelaying and heavy lift
There is palpable excitement at EMAS Singapore. The flagship of the fleet, ‘Lewek Constellation’ has entered service in full splendour and has set off for West Africa for a heavy lift job with Vaalco Energy.
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NewsInnovative Nor Lines duo to raise the bar in shortsea trade
As the first of a pair of LNG-burning general cargo ships for operation in ECAs is nearing completion in China, David Tinsley looks at what could prove the future for European coastal and shortsea ships.
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NewsHybrids – an answer to inefficiency
True hybrid solutions could, with the right push, go much further than their diesel electric forebears in answering some of the inefficiencies which lie at the heart of offshore support operations.
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NewsLNG bunkering for US coming soon
LNG’s longstanding ‘chicken and egg’ conundrum may be at an end as the very first US LNG bunkering vessels are in sight.
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NewsOld fashioned skills needed
A lack of consistency in newly trained mariners and the need to return to ‘old fashioned skills’ are factors leading some offshore support companies to think again, writes Stevie Knight.
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NewsNorth Sea toolbox
After decades of boom on what seemed to be an unlimited North Sea oil and gas bonanza, production levels are beginning to finally beginning to dip.
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NewsDifferent work patterns for arctic OSVs
The arctic holds huge potential for the oil & gas industry although it looks like modifications will be necessary for hardware, processes and crew work patterns.
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NewsSteadily northward
“We’ve seen the oil and gas industry extending its reach steadily north in recent years,” says Ove Wilhelmsen of Wärtsilä, drawing with it a gradual change in support craft design.
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NewsMore than intervention for the UT777
Although Island Offshore want to keep the UT777 design’s ‘competitive advantage’ under wraps for as long as possible, Yrjar Garshol of Rolls-Royce gives Stevie Knight a sneak preview.
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NewsFirst liquid hydrogen carrier
Dag Pike looks at a new tanker concept design from Japan, developed in response to an expected demand for transportation of liquid hydrogen.
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NewsNew stage in revitalisation of Canada’s great lakes/seaway fleet
A new generation of Deltamarin-designed bulk carriers optimised for trade on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence Seaway which has been phased into service by Canadian operator Algoma Central Corporation is described by David Tinsley
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NewsVoith propulsion provides key to specialised construction vessel
German company Voith says that its naval architects are behind a design for a novel offshore construction ship development in Germany and the UK.
