Keppel FELS wins jackup contract
Keppel Corp. Ltd. subsidiary Keppel FELS Ltd. landed a contract to build a KFELS B class jackup for Gulf Drilling International Ltd., Qatar’s first national drilling company.
The jackupGulf-4, which will be built to Keppel FELS’ proprietary design, will operate in 300-ft water depth, drill to 30,000 ft, and accommodate 110.
Four jackups of this design have been built since the design’s introduction in 2000.
Bollinger delivers mega mini vessel
Bollinger Shipyards Inc. has delivered the M/VCapt. Rudy to Seahorse Marine Inc. of Lockport, Louisiana. The M/V Capt. Rudy is the first of a new vessel concept that was modeled from the original Bollinger 145-ft mini supply vessel design.
Bollinger Shipyards� mega mini supply boat, M/V Capt. Rudy completes sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico.
The M/VCapt. Rudy is a 163-ft mega mini supply boat named in honor of the captain of one of the first Bollinger 145-ft mini supply vessels. The concept design is the result of a collaboration between Phillip Plaisance, president of Seahorse Marine, and Bollinger’s design and production team.
The new vessel will provide greater capacity and better sea-keeping, the company says.
Bollinger also recently signed a contract with Montco Offshore to build an advanced 245-ft liftboat to be called the L/BKayd. The award follows the construction of a nearly identical vessel delivered in 2002.
Delivery of the L/BKayd is planned for September 2005.
Aker yards busy
Aker Promar, a part of Aker Brattvaag AS, won a contract from NorSkan Offshore Ltda., Brazil, to build an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel. The vessel will be 80 m long and 18 m wide and will have the designation UT 722 L, designed by Rolls-Royce, which will also be a major supplier of equipment to the project.
Delivery from Aker Promar is scheduled for June 2006.
Aker Brattvaag also won a contract from Olympic Shipping AS to build an MT 6016 platform supply vessel. The 4,700-dwt vessel will measure 93 m in length, with a beam of 19.7 m and will have accommodation capacity for 50. The vessel is prepared for a helideck, a 100-tonne crane, and a 150-tonne A-frame. It will operate in the Barents Sea.
Delivery from Brattvaag Skipsverft is scheduled for March 2006.
In addition to the newbuild work, Aker Brattvaag won a contract from Norway’s Volstad Maritime AS to outfit an ROV survey/supply vessel at Aker Langsten.
The vessel, designed by Skipsteknisk AS in Ålesund, will be 92.5 m long and 18 m wide.
Work began on the vessel in mid-December, with a goal of June 2005 delivery.
Kværner tagged for newbuild
Far-Eastern Shipping Co. has contracted Kværner Masa-Yards to build an icebreaking stand-by and supply vessel following a September 2003 contract with Kværner to design two such vessels.
According to Kværner, the new vessel is 100 m long and weighs in at 4,000 dwt. The ship will be fitted with azimuthing electric propulsion.
The vessel is due for delivery in May and will operate in the harsh Okhotsk Sea environment in the Sakhalin area offshore eastern Russia.
Bourbon orders supply vessel
Fosnavåg-based shipowners Bourbon Offshore Norway have contracted Ulstein Verft AS to build an Ulstein P105 supply vessel. Steel cutting was to begin the end of November 2004, with delivery scheduled for autumn 2005.
Earlier this year, the companies signed a contract for the delivery of a vessel of the same design, which was scheduled for February delivery.
