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Ship Repair & Conversion

Keppel Performs Speedy

FPSO Conversion

Keppel Shipyard, the marine unit of

Keppel Corp. has broken new ground for fast track conversions of highly com- plex Floating Production Storage

Offloading Facilities (FPSO) with the delivery of FPSO Brasil to Single Buoy

Moorings (SBM), Inc.

The workscope on Brasil for the Kep- pel Yard is significantly larger than

Espardarte FPSO, which the yard previ- ously set a record in 2000 as the most complex conversion — completed in a little more than 10 months.

The 256,712-dwt Brasil will be leased to Petrobras SA for deployment in the

Roncandor Field in the Campos Basin off the coast of Brazil. The vessel, which is capable of handling up to 100,000 bpd of crude oil production and a storage capacity of approximately 1.7 million barrels, is on a very strict production deadline — according to shipyard exec-

Nils Holgersson Up

And Running Again

TT-Line ferry, Nils Holgersson, which had dropped out of service due to damage on one of its two pod drives, departed Lloyd Shipyard in

Bremerhaven the evening of Septem- ber 6, 2002, bound for Travemunde to resume scheduled service. Since

Siemens and Schottel had a replace- ment propulsion module already on hand for this project, the loss of the ferry's sail time was kept to a mini- mum due to an even exchange of the faulty module.

The work on Nils Holgersson, which was completed in a matter of five days, involved the repair of an installation error in the cabling of the vessel's monitoring system, which ultimately led to the failure of a drive — per an examination of the defec- tive SSP at the Schottel-Antrieb- stechnik GmbH in Wismar.

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Keppel has also reached out to the

Middle East market as a result of the integration of its offshore and marine businesses under its subsidiary -— Kep- pel Offshore & Marine. For the first time, Keppel's O&M yard, Arab Heavy

Industries in Ajman, UAE, performed the repair of a jack-up drilling rig,

Ekhabi, which was working in the Per- sian Gulf for its owner, Far East Marine

Company. From Singapore, Keppel

FELS supported and worked with AHI on the execution of the job for the rig.

Keppel has another repair contract in the works for Foresight Drilling's Fore- sight Driller V, expected to be complet- ed in October 2002.

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