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New integrated software system

Building on strength

ShipRight - LR's adv for design, construction and lifetime ship care - has now been enhanced with an entirely new set of integrated software tools: ShipRight15.

ShipRight15 can save users time and money by providing: • single input of technical data into a common database • user-friendly calculation tools for concept design and design assessment • automatic generation of finite element models in accordance with ShipRight procedures • facilities for data exchange with ship design systems using the latest STEP technology improved structural monitoring and ! planning.

ShipRight procedures enhance ship safety - giving a better understanding of ship structural performance through experience and knowledge gained from a distillation of theoretical analysis, experimental testing

ShipRight,s provides a comprehensive set of software tools, helping you to: • plan and achieve your design objectives • generate concept designs • define and update structural details • check design scantlings for compliance with LR's Rul es and ShipRight procedures.

Our new ShipRight and ShipRighfs brochures give you more details. For your free copies and further information, contact your local LR office or Jack

Polderman in Miami on +1 305 577 0876.

Lloyd's Register

New World Tower Building, Suite 717 100 N. Biscayne Boulevard

Miami, Florida 33132

Tel: +1 305 577 0876

Fax: +1 305 577 8297

Email: [email protected]

Web site: www.lr.org

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Table Two

Owner Shipyard Capacity Vessel Name

Modec Jurong 357,600 Juno

Modec Jurong 138,540 Anitra

Modec/BHP Jurong — Modec Venture 1

Vietnam Pel Hitachi 131,484 Proster

Bergesen Aker McNulty 103,000 Berge Hugin

Bergesen Jurong 103,000 Munin

Petrobas Hyundai 270,358 Jose Bonifacio

Petrobas Qinhuangdao 279,749 Henrique Diaz

Petrobas Angra dos Reis 292,823 Vidal de Negrieros

Petrobas AESA, Cadiz 283,000 Eastern Strength

Nortrans Keppel 141,000 Knock Buie

The latest contracts include that of the Eastern Strength at Spain's

Astilleros de Cadiz for Brazilian oil major Petrobas, and

Singapore's Keppel Shipyard's contract to convert the 141,000 dwt conventional tanker Knock

Buie to a FPSO for Norwegian owner Red Band. The vessel will be operated by Nortrans, and it will be located in the Ranger Field off the coast of Angola. Red Band is also currently considering the conversion of its vessel, Knock

Davie, for a similar project.

Norwegian shipowner Bergesen is to convert two recently deliv- ered 103,000-dwt multi-purpose tankers into FPSO units, while also converting the 103,000-dwt tanker newbuilding into a drill ship.

The work is being spread between yards in the U.K.,

Norway and Singapore. All three tankers have been built by Korea's

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI).

The lead vessel, Berge Hugin, was delivered earlier this year and is expected to be converted at the

Aker McNulty yard on Tyneside in the U.K. Munin, delivered from

Korea last summer, has now arrived at Singapore's Jurong

Shipyard Ltd. for conversion into a

FPSO, while the third vessel,

Odin, when delivered from SHI, will sail for Norway's Offshore and

Marine Facility, outside

Stavenger, upon conversion into a drillship.

It looks as if Singapore's Jurong

Shipyard Ltd. (JSL) is about to win two more FSU/FPSO conver- (Continued from page 54) take the weight of the aft section of the ship and the final 20 percent of the ship's steel structure will be cut. The trailers will then lift the stern section off the keel blocks and transport it 66 ft. aft.

The first two units of the new mid-section, weighing 70 tons each, have been fabricated at the yard and are ready to be lowered into the dock as soon as the vessel is split. Along with lengthening the vessel, the yard will also widen it by 14 ft. (4.3 m) and two com- plete new decks will be added. By the time the vessels leave the yard in June this year, approximately 1,000 tons of steel will have been added. The two new decks include more than 40 hydraulically operat- ed winches and seismic equipment along with the existing main engine, which was flexibly mount- ed and arranged for Unmanned

Systems operation (UMS). Two additional auxiliary engines are to be installed, along with extensive modifications to accommodations including the addition of 18 extra cabins, a hospital and a gymnasi- um. The existing 19 cabins will be totally refurbished and upgraded.

FPSO Market Buoyant

The conversion market involving tankers to floating and storage off- shore terminals is currently the most active among the ship repair yards throughout the world. There are more than 60 such FPSO pro- jects (conversion and newbuilding) being currently discussed for intro- duction prior to the year 2002.

The conversion projects currently underway are shown in table two below: 66 Circle 309 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News