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Wednesday, October
4, 2000
Farstad orders AHTS's
Norway's Farstad Supply AS has
signed a contract with Ørskov Christensen Staalskibsværft
A/S, Fredrikshavn, for a UT 728 anchor handling tug supply vessel
for delivery in January 2001. The contract includes an option
for a similar vessel.
Farstad Supply AS has also signed a contract
with Langsten Slip & Båtbyggeri AS for delivery of
an anchor handling tug supply vessel of design UT 722 in October
2001. This vessel is an upgraded version of a vessel delivered
from Langsten S in June 1998. The machinery will have a total
output of 18,000 hp
Both vessels are being constructed for
deep water operation .
Kværner offer expires
In a brief announcement, Kværner said that its conditions
had not been met by the end of its offer period for Aker Maritime.
Shares that were sold under the terms of offer are now being
returned.
At last Friday's Extraordinary General
Meeting, no vote was taken on a proposal to authorize the board
to increase Kværner's share capital, in connection with
the all-share offer for Aker Maritime.
Another Aker Maritime deepwater spar
order
Aker Maritime has been awarded a contract for delivery of a spar
floating production platform hull and mooring for the Boomvang
field in the Gulf of Mexico, operated by Kerr-McGee Oil &
Gas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Kerr-McGee Corp. Kerr-McGee
operates Boomvang with a 30% working interest. Its partners in
Boomvang are Enterprise Oil (50%), and Ocean Energy, Inc., (20%).
Delivery of the spar hull is scheduled for 4th quarter 2001.
Aker Maritime is responsible for the engineering,
procurement, fabrication and delivery of the complete hull and
moorings, and will in conjunction with J. Ray McDermott also
perform project management and the delivery of the riser systems.
Earlier this year a joint venture of Aker
Maritime and J. Ray McDermott won a similar contract for Kerr-McGee's
Nansen field.
The Boomvang platform will be Kerr-McGee's
second truss spar, which incorporates a tubular truss system
replacing the lower part of the cylindrical hull. The hull for
Boomvang will be 165.5 meters (543 ft) tall, with a diameter
of 27.4 meters (90 ft) and a displacement of 30,000 metric tons.
The hull has a steel weight of approximately 10,000 tons.
Boomvang is the sixth deepwater field to
be developed using spar technology. The previous five platforms
using this concept are Nansen, Horn Mountain, Diana, Genesis
and Neptune, all located in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Aker
Maritime has provided the hulls for all spar platforms currently
operating and under construction.
The Boomvang field is located in the Gulf
of Mexico's East Breaks Blocks 642, 643, 688 and 732 approximately
115 miles south of Galveston, Texas, in water depth of 3,450
feet.
Bouguyes invests in Italian fab yard
partner
Bouygues Offshore has made an indirect 20% equity investment
in Italy's Rosetti Marino SpA. Rosetti Marino
specializes in the construction of offshore platform structures
and topsides, pre-assembled units and onshore/offshore process
and utilities' modules, manufacture of pressure vessels, columns,
towers and reactors and construction of heat recovery steam generators.
Bouygues Offshore and Rosetti Marino a
have been partners since 1985 when they jointly formed ROSBOS,
whichspecialized in offshore construction and employing the facilities
of tItaly's Ravenna Rosetti yard. The Nkossa modules for Elf
and more recently the Odidi compression units to collect and
export gas for Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria
are two examples of projects constructed at the Ravenna Rosetti
yard.
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