OSD Seals Ten New PSV Orders
Offshore Ship Designers has sealed ten new design contracts for large diesel-electric platform supply vessels (PSVs) for two major offshore operators building in Brazil, Japan and Spain. Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Limited has ordered four IMT-997 PSVs to be built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan and four sister vessels to be built at the EISA shipyard in Brazil. Craig Group‘s Northstar Shipping has ordered two IMT-982 PSVs to be built at Balenciaga in Spain.
Neil Patterson, managing director of OSD-IMT, the UK arm of the OSD group, says: “The key elements of our IMT range of offshore support vessels are fuel efficiency and design for purpose. These leading offshore operators want vessels designed efficiently for specific tasks, and with these new designs we can tailor the hull, cargo systems, power and propulsion systems to the required operating profile.
What Is Needed
“With offshore operators developing oil fields in deeper water and in more exposed environmental conditions, the requirements are for more efficient high capacity support vessels often with special requirements. OSD can design exactly what is needed, through the IMT range of OSVs and with our extensive experience of diesel-electric systems and regulations such SPS Code, IBC Code and Probabilistic Damage, our designs can built anywhere in the world at the most competitive price”, he concludes.
IMT-997
The 97m (LOA), 5,000DWT IMT-997 designs for Swire Pacific will be classed with DP2 capability and have diesel-electric propulsion systems with azimuth propulsion units. The vessels will be delivered progressively from early 2014.
IMT-982
Craig Group’s two IMT-982 PSVs measure 83 m (LOA) and will as well be featuring diesel-electric propulsion systems offering greater fuel economy and efficiency. These vessels have an initial operating deadweight of 2,550 DWT, a useable deck area of 912 sq. m and are powered by four MAK 9M20 1,450kW generator sets driving two Steerprop 1,900kWe Azimuths. The vessels are specially designed to operate at less than 5,000t displacement to work with older North Sea structures where vessel size and weight restrictions apply and will be also classed with DP2 capability.