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M/S Yulius Fuchik, First Of Two Valmet-Built Davie Shipbuilding Signs License Agreement

Lykes SEABEE-Type Barge Carriers For USSR For Gaz-Transport LNG Containment System

The home port of the Yulius Fuchik will be Izmail, on the lower Danube, from where the vessel will operate to Middle East and Southeast Asian ports.

The first Lykes SEABEE-type barge carrier for the Soviet Un- ion, the M/S Yulius Fuchik, was delivered in Helsinki on Octo- ber 20 by the builder Valmet Oy of Finland. Yalmet had previously contacted Lykes Bros. Steamship

Company in Europe and received license rights to build two SEA-

BEE-type vessels for the USSR, and an agreement on an exchange of know-how.

The barge carrier Yulius Fuchik is a diesel-powered twin-screw vessel of usual welded-steel con- struction, with the following main dimensions: length overall, 266.44 meters (about 874 feet) ; length between perpendiculars, 222.81 meters (731 feet) ; breadth, mold- ed, 35 meters (115 foet) ; depth, molded, 22 95 meters (75 feet) ; draft on construction waterline, 9 meters (30 feet) ; draft, maxi- mum, 11 meters (36 feet), and international tonnage, 36,382.62 grt.

A total of 26 Danube-Sea (D-M) type barges, each weigh- ing a maximum of 1,300 tons, can be loaded into the ship. Thus the total loading capacity is 26 x 1,300 tons = 33,800 tons. If a possibly more realistic barge weight is used (1,000 tons), the loading ca- pacity is about 26,000 tons.

Containers can be carried in two different ways: in the hold and on the hatch covers of the

Marathon LeTourneau

Building Two Rigs

For Keyes Offshore, Inc.

Keyes Offshore, Inc., 2425 Foun- tainview Drive, Houston, Texas, has applied for a Title XI guaran- tee to aid in financing the con- struction of two offshore jackup drilling rigs. The applicant indi- cates the rigs will be operated in the Gulf of Mexico.

One rig presently is under con- struction by Marathon LeTour- neau Company, Vicksburg, Miss.

It is designed to operate in water depths up to 150 feet, with wave heights to 47 feet and sustained wind speeds to 90 miles per hour. barge or with special container adapters.

In the stern, two cantilevers have been added on both sides of the vessel supporting the hoisting machinery of the loading platform of 2,700 tons capacity and pro- tecting the barge handling from a heavy sea.

The vessels are built according to the rules of the Register of the USSR for the notation KM +

L3, A2, and to fulfill the inter- national rules (Load Line Con- vention, SOLAS, etc).

The average service speed will be 9.8 m/s (19 knots), main en- gines running at 26,500 kw with a main engine consumption of heavy fuel oil of 130 tons/days.

Endurance will be 12,000 nautical miles, and other stores are suf- ficient for 40 days' consumption.

The propulsion plant consists of two c-p propellers each driven by diesels via twin input-single out- put reduction gear. The diesel- type is S.E.M.T.-Pielstick 16 PC 2.5-V400.

The home port of the Yulius

Fuchik will be Izmail on the lower

Danube, from where the vessel will operate to Middle East and

Southeast Asian ports. The barges will be handled in Europe by the international organization "Inter- lihter," situated in Budapest.

The next vessel in the series will be delivered late 1979.

Hull dimensions are 148 feet long, 160 feet wide and 16 feet deep.

It will accommodate a crew of 40. Delivery is scheduled for July 1979.

Marathon LeTourneau also is the proposed builder for the sec- ond rig, designed to operate in water depths up to 250 feet, with wave heights of 38 feet and wind speeds to 100 knots. Hull dimen- sions are 207 feet long, 176 feet wide, and 20 feet deep. It will accommodate a crew of 60, and delivery is scheduled for June 1980.

The Title XI guarantee re- quested totals $28,126,000, an amount not to exceed 75 percent of the actual cost of the rigs.

Davie Shipbuilding Limited of

Lauzon, Quebec, Canada, and Gaz-

Transport S. A. R. L. of France have signed a license agreement whereby Davie obtains the right to utilize the GT Standard Tech- nique liquefied natural gas (LNG) containment system. The double- walled system provides the cargo- hold barrier which enables the cryogenically cooled liquefied na- tural gas to be stored or shipped via large specialized vessels.

The agreement is another ma- jor step in Davie's preparation to respond to long-term projects aimed at bringing Canadian Arc- tic natural gas to southern mar- kets—in particular, the combined

Petro-Canada, Melville Shipping "Arctic Pilot Project." This proj- ect will need containment systems for Petro-Canada's LNG storage barges to be used in conjunction with a barge-mounted liquefac- tion plant. Melville Shipping plans to use ice-strengthened carriers to ship the LNG south.

It is expected that a final deci- sion on these long-term projects will be made within the coming year, with the project being fully operational by the mid-80s.

The "Arctic Pilot Project" was

Vaporphase To Supply

Systems For Four

New USCG Cutters

Vaporphase by Engineering

Controls Division of Pott Indus- tries Inc., St. Louis, Mo., has re- ceived an order for the complete

Waste Heat Recovery Systems for four 270-foot Medium Endur- ance Coast Guard Cutters being constructed by Tacoma Boat- building Co., Inc., Tacoma, Wash.

A pioneer in the development of high-temperature cooling of reciprocating engines and waste heat recovery since the late thir- ties, Engineering Controls has more installed horsepower than anyone else in the field.

A first for the Coast Guard, the Caterpillar D-398 diesel ship service generator sets will be high-temperature cooled by Va- porphase to recover jacket water given reason for optimism when provisions for U.S. domestic gas price increases were included in the Carter Administration's En- ergy Bill which recently passed the House of Congress.

With the signing of the license,

Davie becomes the first Canadian company to import the complex marine technology into Canada, and the decision will give the country the opportunity to be among the nations of the "LNG

Club," with the capability to build

LNG carriers. The importance is that these ships are one of the few classes of vessels to have a strong current and projected de- mand within the presently de- pressed marine market. Davie plans in the long term to be able to actively compete on an inter- national basis for this type of vessel.

One of the major advantages of the Gaz-Transport system is that due to the design, it is pos- sible to obtain a very high degree of Canadian content in both ma- terials and labor. Hence, it is possible to attain an economic "spin-off" from constructing LNG carriers in Canada, using the GT

Standard Technique. and exhaust heat, normally re- jected to the sea and to atmos- phere, in the form of low-pressure steam. The utilization of the heat recovered increases the thermal efficiency of the diesel generator sets by approximately 42 percent.

This recovered heat will be used for the quarters heating and dis- tillation load, eliminating the need for a fired boiler and its fuel re- quirements onboard.

Other innovations in the cut- ter design include a computerized command display and control sys- tem, which integrates vital func- tions such as weapons, sensors, navigation, and bridge into a two- man computer station, Navy- supplied sophisticated weaponry, and helicopter.

Engineering Controls is an af- filiate of St. Louis Ship, a Divi- sion of Pott Industries Inc., a

Houston Natural Gas Corporation subsidiary.

Typical carrier equipped with the Gaz-Transport LNG containment system.

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