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Besides the Fredholm, which is due to be delivered this month, Bur- meister & Wain shipyard has orders for two additional product tankers from PetroBulk Carriers A/S, which are due to be delivered in December 1988 and April 1989, respectively.

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BHP Petroleum Orders

Production Barge From IHI

Ishikawajima-Harima Industries (IHI) of Japan recently received an order from BHP Petroleum of Aus- tralia to build a 140,000-dwt barge which will be used as an oilfield pro- duction/storage facility. The un- manned barge will be utilized at the

Challis field in the Timor Sea.

Earlier, BHP had ordered a 90,000-ton crude oil carrier from

IHI. She will be chartered by BHP

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Transport. yard since 1985.

The M/T Fredholm, which was christened by Jacqueline Weil, was contracted by K/S Frederik- sholm, a Danish partnership. Like her sister ship, the M/T Chrisholm, the Fredholm will be operated by

Norwegian shipowner Torvald

Klaveness & Co. A/S.

The Fredholm has an overall length of 750 feet, breadth of 106 feet, design draft of 38 feet, scant- ling draft of 54-1/2 feet and cargo tank capacity of 90,500 m3. She is powered by one five-cylinder, two- stroke, MAN B&W L70MCE diesel engine, which develops 10,900 bhp at 84 mcr. She is fitted with a 23- 1/2-foot-diameter propeller. Her av- erage speed at loaded design draft is about 15.1 knots.

The Fredholm is a single-screw tanker built to Det norske Veritas class and is to be classed and regis- tered + 1A1 "tanker for oil and caustic soda, COW, EO, INERT," and in accordance with tbe Interna- tional Convention for the Preven- tion of Pollution of the Sea, and the

U.S. Coast Guard's rules and regula- tions for foreign flag tankers.

Burmeister & Wain Christens

Panamax Product Tanker

Danish shipbuilders Burmeister ninth in a series of Panamax 59,999- & Wain recently christened the dwt product tankers, built by the

The Fredholm is powered by a single five-cylinder, two-stroke MAN B&W L70MCE engine, which develops 10,900 bhp.

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