new shipyards, a market study to identify potential future regional shiprepair volumes, performance benchmarking and improvement advice for a group of commercial yards, and provision of strategic advice on supplier selection for a naval procurement programme. First Marine International’s managing director,
John Craggs, will continue to head up the team. Dutch consultancy group Royal Haskoning said
the acquisition would bring new expertise to its service portfolio, including marine industry studies, market studies, shipyard concept layout development and master planning, technology and performance benchmarking, and development, implementation, and management of shipyard performance improve- ment programmes.
Heavylift Advanced
thinking from SAL Te naming of Frauke makes good on the unfolding commitment of the SAL/K-Line joint venture SAL to a range of new generation heavyliſt vessels for the oil and gas sector. Frauke will be the first of eight new heavyliſt
vessels to be delivered to SAL. Te vessel, of type 176, will offer what is claimed to be an unrivalled speed of 20knots and a combined crane capacity of 1400tonnes SWL. Tis vessel will be followed by three sister ships which will enter the market during 2008. Te venture’s newbuilding programme will be
further expanded in 2010, when another four newbuildings of type 179 are added to the SAL heavyliſt fleet. Tese vessels will be equipped with two cranes of 1000tonnes SWL each. They will feature an unobstructed working deck of 135m x 27.50m, an on/under deck area of 7000m2
, a speed of
20knots, and a Dynamic Positioning System (DP2), making these newbuildings unique in the heavyliſt/ offshore market to date, according to the owner. All eight upcoming vessels are being built by
German shipyard Sietas. Te dynamic positioning systems will allow these
vessels to provide a combination of both transporta- tion and construction/installation services to the oil and gas sector, including subsea operations. Further- more, all vessels will feature additional accommoda- tion and a helideck for flexible crew change. All upcoming newbuildings will be equipped
with an environmental passport encompassing a ballast water management plan and a biological sewage treatment plan. In addition, the vessels will have a garbage recycling system onboard which will prevent any waste from being discharged at sea.
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Frauke, the first of eight new heavylift ships for the joint venture between K-Line and German owner SAL.
Furthermore, all vessels will be equipped with a chemical dosing centre.
LNG FLEX LNG to initially envisaged 90,000m3 . FLEX LNG said the maximum production
capacity the LNGP hulls would be able to support has been increased from previously communicated 1mtpa to about 1.7mtpa. Te three contracts replace the three previous shipbuilding contracts with SHI for three 90,000m3 SPB. Te size and design change also encompasses
all future options held by FLEX LNG with SHI for additional LNGP Hulls. Te firm contract price per LNGP Hull is now
US$458,455,000, which includes gas loading systems, topside supports, and utilities for up to 1.7mtpa production capacity. Based on current estimates for the topside and
installation cost this will bring the CAPEX per tonne liquefaction capacity for the units to approximately US$ ~500/tonne per year. Te delivery windows for the LNGP Hulls remain the same as for the SPB Panamax LNG Carriers. FLEX LNG said the adjusted design was deemed
beneficial for most of the projects it was developing in the Atlantic and Asia/Pacific basin. NA
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nearly double FLEX LNG Ltd’s newbuild orders with Samsung Heavy Industries for an innovative batch of Panamax LNG carriers (LNGP) has been adjusted, such that their capacity will now be 170,000m3
, rather than an
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