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TANKER TECHNOLOGY

KMY Delivers Third LNG

Carrier To ADNOC

The naming of the third of four

LNG carriers built by Finland's

Kvaerner Masa-Yards Turku New

Shipyard for Abu Dhabi National

Oil Co. (ADNOC) took place in early November 1996. The ship, dubbed Al Hamra (pictured on this month's cover), is a 135,000-cu-m

LNG carrier and was delivered in

January. The last ship in the series is scheduled for delivery in

May. The series is a technological- ly advanced type which has received much acclaim in these pages since the contract was signed in April 1993. The first two vessels — Mubaraz and Mraweh — were delivered in January and

June 1996, respectively. These two have been successfully engaged in transporting LNG from Abu Dhabi

Gas Liquefication Co. to Tokyo

Electric Power Co. in Japan.

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Replace Your Fluid-Filled

Gauges

Direct Electronic Retrofit for Tank liquid Level

KING-GAGE' LevelBAR" replaces all fluid-filled manometer tank gauges with a single integrated electronic unit.

Analog LED column display is easy to read and reliable. Its rugged stainless enclosure suits any environment.

Simply connect power and signal input to complete installation.

Includes custom marked two unit scale (volume, weight, % full, etc.). Works with air-driven pneu- matic or electronic sensors.

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The LNG cargo containment sys- tem is based on the Kvaerner

Moss-type spherical aluminum tank design. The carrier has only four spherical aluminum cargo tanks — each with a tank inner diameter of 40.4 m — which helps to simplify cargo systems and oper- ations. The LNG tank manufac- turing method was developed at the Turku New Shipyard.

For more information on the advanced

LNG Carriers

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Converted Tanker Serving

Maui B Offshore Field

Mitsui Engineering &

Shipbuilding, jointly with its affili- ated company Modec, delivered a

Floating Production Storage &

Offloading (FPSO) unit to Shell

Todd Oil Services Ltd. of New

Zealand. Named Whakaaropai, the FPSO was converted from a crude oil tanker. Newly installed is on-deck process facilities and a special turret mooring system.

After conversion work at a yard in Singapore, the unit sailed to the

Maui B offshore oilfield located about 50 km from the west coast of

North Island, New Zealand. The 833-ft. (254-m) FPSO has a maxi- mum production capacity of 43,200 bbl/day, and a crude oil storage capacity of 660,000 bbl.

For more information from Mitsui

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Lindenau Launches

Advanced Double Hull

Lindenau GmbH has launched hull no. S 245, a 12,000-dwt, dou- ble-hulled oil and chemical tanker, the first of two vessels for

Marichem Europe S.r.l. The shipowner requested that the tanker have a maximum length of 393 ft. (120 m); a maximum draft of 27 ft. (8.2 m); a minimum dead- weight of 12,000 tons; and a speed of 15.5 knots. According to the yard, the request produced a vessel with a hull with a very unusual length to beam ratio and a rela- tively high block coefficient.

The ship is outfitted with an inte- grated computer control and opera- tion system for cargo, machinery, navigation, communications and preventive servicing. It features a redundant propulsion system, as there will be a shaft generator installed which can be used either (Continued on page 44)

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