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Galveston, Texas, where the repairs and prin- cipal conversion work was performed afloat.

The vessel was to have sailed no later than

June 21 for Europe, where it was to be dry- docked at a Portuguese shipyard for shell plate repairs, hull coating and final ABS-class inspection. The schedule calls for the vessel to move onto West Africa from Portugal, and it is to be installed at the Zafiro field by mid-

August.

Some highlights of the conversion include: •At 268,000 dwt, Zafiro Producer will be the second largest vessel ever converted to an

FPSO when it enters production service; •The 80,000/bpd, 40-mmscfd production process system is one of the largest yet installed aboard an FPSO; and •The vessel will be installed in a water depth of 600 ft. (182.8 m), reportedly the greatest depth to date for a spread-moored FPSO, and the greatest depth for a floating production system offshore West Africa.

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NOTE: For more information on this innovative conver- sion, please see the Ship & Boatbuilding Technology sec- tion of MR/ENs August 1996 edition.

MES Delivers Bulk Carrier Forward 3

The 46,678-dwt bulk carrier Forward 3 (Hull No. 1426), built at the Tamano Works of

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES), has been completed and delivered to its owner Mi-Das Line SA. Forward 3 is a medium-sized bulk carrier with five cargo holds and four cranes all together.

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Forward 3 Particulars

Length o.a 622.7 ft. (189.8 m)

Length b.p 593.8 ft. (181 m)

Breadth (molded) 101.7 ft. (31 m)

Depth (molded) 54.1 ft. (16.5 m)

Draft (molded) 38 ft. (11.6 m)

DWT 46,678

Main engine Mitsui-MAN B&W 6S50MC diesel

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Oceaneering Completes FPSO

Conversion

A 268,000-dwt crude oil tanker was converted to a floating pro- duction, storage and offloading system (FPSO), named Zafiro

Producer, by Oceaneering International. Oceaneering purchased the vessel from Mobil, and Mobil will lease the completed FPSO from Oceaneering for processing up to 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day at the Zafiro field, which is offshore Bioko Island,

Equatorial Guinea.

The vessel — which will have a storage capacity of 1.2 million bar- rels of crude oil — was originally the M/T Swift, built in Japan by

Mitsui at the Tamano shipyard in 1973 for a Japanese owner.

Following its purchase by Oceaneering, the vessel was taken to

PMB/Bechtel Pelican Island Facility (the former Todd Shipyard) in

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