contracts & completions
German-built ice-class tanker sets sail
Norilsky Nickel has taken delivery of Enisey. This is a 18,500 dwt high specification product carrier that was built at Nordic Yards Germany. The vessel has been built for year-round operation in the Arctic. At 2 knots it can break through 1.5m-thick ice. Its open water speed is 15.3 knots. It will primarily trade between the
Russian ports of Dudinka and Murmansk. The project was completed in 15 months.
The vessels is 170m long, has a 23m breadth and a cargo tank capacity of more than 20,600m3. Part of the diesel-electric machinery is made up of a gondola propeller that can rotate through 360 degrees.
AET earmarks latest delivery for MCV conversion in brief
• Teekay has taken delivery of the shuttle tankers Nansen Spirit, Peary Spirit and Scott Spirit.
• Shanghai North Sea Shipping has contracted two 75,000 dwt shuttle tankers from Jiangsu Rong Sheng with deliveries in 2013.
• Nordic American Tankers has taken delivery of the Suezmax Nordic Zenith from Samsung Heavy Industries. The company now has a fleet of 20 vessels in operation.
• Japan’s Kanehiro Kisen has ordered a 4,999 dwt product carrier from the Hakata shipyard for an undisclosed price. Delivery is scheduled for May next year.
• Panoil Tankers of Singapore has ordered two 4,800 dwt product carriers from China’s Zhejiang Chengzhou. The price is unreported and deliveries are set for June and July 2012 respectively.
Eagle Texas will serve a dual role: conventional Aframax tanker and MCV
Eagle Texas, the 61st Aframax to be delivered into AET’s rapidly growing fleet, will be the company’s second tanker to take up duties as a modular capture vessel (MCV). AET was recently awarded a 20-year
contract with Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) to supply two MCVs to provide hydrocarbon capture and containment services for containing a potential future underwater well control incident in the US Gulf of Mexico. The 107,000 dwt Eagle Texas was delivered in September 2011 from Tsuneishi Shipbuilding. It will undergo extensive conversion and modification before taking up duties in the US Gulf. The Aframax will be fitted out with dynamic positioning technology as well as processing equipment, additional accommodation and other facilities to enable it to take on its containment role, if required. The vessel will remain on standby in the US Gulf region for the duration of the contract but will continue to trade as a standard Aframax tanker when not required for containment duties. MWCC is currently developing an expanded containment response system to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well control incident in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Eagle Texas and her sister ship, Eagle Louisiana, will undergo conversion to incorporate specially designed equipment that will allow them to serve as MCVs
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in the expanded containment response system. MWCC has 10 members: ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell, BP, Apache, Anadarko, BHP Billiton, Statoil and Hess. This delivery has been followed by AET accepting delivery of the world’s first purpose- built lightering support vessel. AET Innovator is designed and built to streamline ship-to-ship transfers in the US Gulf and is the first of four sister craft to be built and delivered into the AET Offshore fleet. Leading the project for AET, General Manager of AET Offshore, Bill Merritt, says: “Lightering has been conducted in the US Gulf since the 1980s but, until now, support has been provided by converted offshore supply vessels. Three years ago, AET decided to introduce a major improvement to the industry and began work on a new fleet of specialty lightering support vessels. These new ships provide a more stable and effective working platform for our lightering crews and are more manoeuvrable and able to handle less favourable weather conditions. The new craft was designed by Elliott Bay Design Group of Seattle and built by Leevac Industries in Louisiana. Overall the AET petroleum fleet comprises 88 vessels: 13 VLCCs, 61 Aframax, one Panamax and 13 clean tankers. AET has a further 11 vessels on order. AET is a wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysian energy logistics group, MISC Berhard, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. TST
• Denmark’s Herning Tankers has taken delivery of the 7,499 dwt chemical carrier Cathy Theresa from China’s Nantong Mingde shipyard. The reported price is US$19.9 million.
• Lauritzen has taken delivery of the Panamax shuttle tanker Dan Cisne from COSCO Nantong, China. The contract price has been reported as US$39.8 million.
• Greek shipmanagment company Enesel has taken delivery of the 158,000 dwt Suezmax crude oil carrier Princimar Promise from Samsung. The vessel has been flagged with the Marshall Islands.
• Industry analyst BRL Shipping reports that Eastern Med Maritime has placed an order at SPP Shipping for two 52,000 dwt MR1 product carriers. The contract includes an option for two further vessels. If the third option is exercised the deal will have a total value of US$111 million. Deliveries are set for towards the end of 2013.
• Gotland Sweden has exercised an option for a second 53,000 dwt MR1 product carrier at Guangzhou International in China. The vessel will operate in the Hafnia pool, which is operated out of Denmark.
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