FINLAND
N addition to prominent orders to supply electrical packages for three Arctic tankers being built at Samsung Heavy Industries for Sovcomflot (discussed elsewhere in this feature), ABB has recently delivered its systems for other Russian ice-going ships. Important references include the electrical power system and two 6.5MW Azipod propulsion drives for the icebreaker/supply ship Fesco Sakhalin (The Naval Architect July/August 2005, page 41). This purpose- built ship is now operating at the Sakhalin-1 offshore field in the Russian Far East. Another significant project involves a 13MW Azipod propulsion drive plus electrical systems for the 14,500dwt Arctic container vessel Norilskiy Nickel (see separate article) for MMC Norilskiy Nickel.
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special ship is planned for operation between Dudinka on the river Yenisey and Murmansk. Back in 1997 the product tanker Uikku pioneered Russian Arctic Azipod operations, by becoming the first non-Russian owned cargo ship to navigate through the entire North-East Sea route, equipped with a retrofitted Azipod.
ABB is also involved in other newbuilding projects at Samsung. The company has been awarded contracts to supply the complete electrical propulsion systems for six dual-fuel diesel-electric 153,000m3
LNG carriers being
built at this Korean yard. Four vessels are for AP Möller and two for K-Line, with deliveries scheduled from late 2007 to late 2008. ABB will also supply electrical propulsion, power generation and distribution systems for two monohull drill ships: one for Norway's Mosvold Drilling and the other for Stena Drilling; these ships are based on a Saipem 10000 design. At the same yard, ABB will supply a similar package for a deep-water semisubmersible drilling platform ordered by Eastern Drilling.
At the end of November last year, ABB had an order backlog worth US$140 million. This includes the three tanker Azipod installations at Samsung as well as electrical power systems for 11 ships and two semisubmersible drilling rigs, also the above-mentioned drilling vessels
for Mosvold Drilling and Stena, where the ABB scope includes generators, thruster motors, main switchboards, and transformers. ABB has also received an order for total electrical power system packages for two semi-submersible drilling rigs for subsidiaries of Jon Fredriksen- controlled SeaDrill Ltd, which will be built at the Jurong Shipyard, with first rig delivery in early 2008.
Other contracts include those to outfit three vessels at the Aker Langsten shipyard in Norway. These include electrical propulsion systems for one well-intervention vessel and one anchor-handling, towing, and supply vessel for Island Offshore as well as for a similar ship for Farstad Shipping. Delivery of the equipment
will begin in late 2006. In addition, ABB holds orders for high-voltage switchboards for four container vessels to be built at Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) for the Hamburg-Süd Group, of Germany, and high-voltage switchboards and transformers for three LNG carriers being built for China LNG at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Co. Since the launch of the Azipod concept in 1990 - a technique which has revolutionised marine propulsion in some sectors - a total of around 150 units, ranging in power up to 20MW, have been ordered. To date, the total cumulative operating experience with Azipod systems exceeds 1.9 million operating hours.
The icebreaker-supply/standby ship Fesco Sakhalin, completed last year by Aker Finnyards, is equipped with two 6.5MW ABB Azipod propulsion drives. The vessel is operating at the Sakhalin-1 offshore field.
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