Norway’s MariNe iNDustries
Skipskonsulent reaps bumper returns of
building boom
Naval architects Skipskonsulent, part of the Vik-Sandvik group, has more
than 50 ships to its designs under development, across a broad portfolio
range.
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ivind Aanensen, a naval also working on a number of seismic 2001-2007, Stenersen also ordered 13
architect and project engineer vessel conversions for this now-buoyant tankers of the SK 5054 CT design, a
responsible for marketing and market. 17,000dwt tanker for oil and chemicals
sales at Skipskonsulent, said that the with length between perpendiculars of
company currently had 12 newbuilding Driving force 133.80m, breadth (moulded) of 23.00m,
contracts on its books. Most, if not all Mr Aanensen said: ‘Due to the and draught of 12.40m.
of these, are repeat orders for vessel exceptionally good market for Also on order are three more SK 5054
types that Skipskonsulent is well known offshore vessels for a very long time, CDs at Türkter Shipyard, Turkey, for as
for, such as tankers. These include Skipskonsulent has also done a lot of yet unnamed clients; and two SK 5054
tankers ranging in size from 800dwt to work on Vik-Sandvik designed vessels CTs, for Knutsen OAS, the latter of
19,000dwt. recently. All in all, a very good year for which is on order at Jiangnan Shipyard
In total, more than 50 vessels of Skipskonsulent, and the prospects for for Haugesund, Norway-based Knutsen.
Skipskonsulent design are under next year are very good.’ These vessels are due for delivery in
d e v e l opm e nt w or l d w i d e . Te n Among recent orders are three more 2008-2009 and are 16,400dwt tankers for
newbuildings to Skipskonsulent designs vessels to the SK 5054 CT design for chemicals and oil products with length
were delivered in 2007, along with 10 Rederiet Stenersen, vessels which are between perpendiculars of 133.8m,
conversions from single to double skin building at Jiangnan Shipyard in China. breadth of 23.0m, and draught of 12.4m.
Panamax tankers. Skipskonsulent is Skipskonsulent notes that in the period NA
Offshore goes for size and sophistication
Such is their small size compared with most merchant vessels, offshore
vessels do not normally feature in The Naval Architect, but recent months
have seen orders for Norwegian-designed ships comfortably in excess of
100m long.
M
ainly large anchor handling depths of 3000m, lifting payloads of up to construction vessels building at Davie
tug supply vessels (AHTS), 400tonnes with generous safety margins. Quebec in Canada which are 130m
construction ships, Dive Another Norwegian operator, Farstad, overall, but perhaps the largest of the ever-
Support Vessels (DSVs) or innovative, ship- has several high specification vessels on larger offshore fleet are the monohull light
shaped, monohull well intervention vessels, order, among them a UT761 CD due well intervention vessels that Aker Yards is
the new generation of larger, sophisticated to be delivered in December 2008 by building for Aker Oilfield Services. Built
offshore vessel is designed to work in Aker Yards Langsten. This construction/ to an Aker Yards Project design - the Aker
deeper waters than foregoing designs. trenching vessel comes in at 121.50m and is OSCV 06 WI - they are 157m in length,
Boa Sub C is the second of two subsea noteworthy for several reasons, not just its with a 27m beam, and designed to service
construction ships for Boa Group in immense bollard pull, which, at 400tonnes, oil fields and enhance production from
Norway. Handed over to Boa at the end of comfortably exceeds that of any other vessel those fields, and do so at a much more
July, the vessel is of the Vik-Sandvik VS4201 like it. reasonable cost than semisubmersibles
design, and at 138.5m will undertake subsea Cecon in Norway now has several that have carried out this kind of work
construction and installation work in water Vik-Sandvik-designed VS4220 offshore hitherto. NA
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