Feature 5
SmartMarine saves Six Tee time
The SmartMarine 3D design software package is now being used by
Singapore’s Six Tee Engineering Groups.
S
ix Tee Engineering Groups, one of
Asia’s leading marine and offshore
facilities engineering firms, has
adopted Intergraph’s SmartMarine 3D
software. Based in Singapore and China, Six
Tee specialises in the basic detail design and
project management of marine and offshore
structures.
SmartMarine 3D is reckoned to provide
a multi-discipline, integrated, and seamless
design environment that will facilitate work
sharing between Six Tee’s Singapore, Tianjin,
and Shanghai offices.
The company selected the software in
order to increase the productivity and quality
of its design work. Projects that the business
has been involved in include floating
production, storage, and offloading vessels;
jack-ups; semisubmersibles; drillships;
offshore fixed platforms; pipelaying/derrick
barges; subsea pipelines; offshore support
vessels; and a variety of merchant ships.
Designed to reduce costs, the program Image created by Six Tee Engineering Groups for a pilot project using SmartMarine 3D.
is intended to shorten project schedules
for shipbuilders and offshore design firms
alike. It comprises engineering, automatic Six Tee is the most recent Asian Samsung Heavy Industries, and all
drawings generation, production planning, adopter of this software. Other users five shipyards of the COSCO Shipyard
and manufacturing. include Keppel FELS of Singapore, Group of China. NA
MacGregor Offshore moves forward
Crane and deck equipment manufacturer MacGregor has seen orders roll
in for its recently-formed Offshore subsidiary.
M
acGregor is setting records for manufactured at MacGregor’s seaside facility
the companies that it acquired in Singapore.
in 2007 to create its Offshore This order follows in the wake of a number
subsidiary: Hydramarine AS of Norway of contracts secured on behalf of the former
and Plimsoll in Singapore. At the end of Plimsoll facility in Singapore. These include
last year the company signed the single five shipsets of deck machinery for Niigata
biggest offshore crane order in the history Shipbuilding and Repair, Japan, to be installed
of Hydramarine. on 70m long offshore anchor handling
The contract is for 10 large active heave tug/supply vessels being built for a Japanese
compensated cranes for 10 offshore vessels owner, and a Plimsoll electrically-driven 10-
being built at Zhejiang Shipyard, China, for point mooring system for a subsea pipelayer
delivery between 2010 and 2012 to French being built at China’s Nanjing Shipyard, due
shipowner Bourbon. The cranes will be for delivery in the final quarter of 2008. NA
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