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VESSELS LNG-Powered Towboat

Gets ABS AIP

A 4,200 hp LNG-powered towboat gy, but it is not wedded to it. While Wärt- from Conrad Shipyard and The Shearer silä’s existing dual fuel engines are me-

Group, Inc. (TSGI) received “Approval dium speed diesels, it is anticipated that in Principle” (AIP) from the American future engine developments will result in

Bureau of Shipping (ABS). The boat is lighter and smaller high speed units. “By based on TSGI’s azimuth drive (Z-drive) combining two widely accepted tech- towboat design that made its debut in nologies; Z-drives and dual fuel engines 2008 as the Frank T. Stegbauer. To date, and fuel system, we have mitigated most eight of these towboats have been built of the risks associated with being an ear- for Southern Towing Company, which to ly adopter of this novel technology” said date has been a true pioneer in the use Greg Beers, P.E., TSGI’s President. “By of Z-drives for brown water operations. incorporating proven technologies, we

The new LNG powered towboat design have minimized the risks that ? rst mov- is baed on Wärtsilä’s dual fuel technolo- ers will be taking with the switch.”

Lamprell Delivers Jackup Rig

Lamprell completed the construction of jack-up drilling rig Shuwehat, and deliv- ered the rig to Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Company (NDC) within budget and schedule. The delivery follows Lamprell’s announcement on November 12 stating that the group received a new $365m contract from NDC for the construction of two additional jack-up drilling rigs of a similar design and spec.

Shuwehat is the ? fth in a series of eight rigs ordered in April 2012 with the Le-

Tourneau Super 116E (Enhanced) Class design which are being built and deliv- ered by Lamprell to NDC. The third and fourth rigs, Qarnin and Marawwah, were completed earlier this year. Lamprell said that the delivery of three drilling units to a single client in one year is a record.

Shuwehat rig is the 11th Super 116E jack-up drilling unit that the group has de- livered in the last six years. The Shuwehat rig is the third rig delivered to NDC in 2014, with another due for delivery in a matter of months.

HE Sheikh Saud Bin Khalid Al Qasimi (center) cuts the ribbon for the NDC

Shuwehat rig alongside Lamprell CEO Jim Moffat (right) and NDC Chief Ex- ecutive Of? cer Abdalla Saeed Al Suwaidi (left) 12 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • JANUARY 2015

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