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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION

The latest FPSO con-tract to be placed involves

Singapore's

K e p p e 1

Shipyard, which will convert the 140,905-dwt con- ventional tanker Ruby Princess to a FPSO. Operated by Nortrans

Offshore Vietnam Ltd. (Nortrans), this is the third FPSO contract which Nortrans, one of the major offshore and engineering consultants in the region, has awarded to Keppel Shipyard over the past year. The previous two vessels were Endeavour, delivered

April, 1997, and Petroleo Nautipa (ex Knock Buie), which was com- pleted in April.

Due to be completed this

September, Ruby Princess is to be operated by Nortrans for Petronas

Carigali (Vietnam) Sdn Bhd on the

Ruby Field, South East of Vung

Tau in Vietnam, as a base for pro- cessing and storing crude oil and mooring/loading terminal for export tankers. The yard will install equipment including process, flare drum and metering skids. Other equipment to be installed includes a 1,500-kW turbo alternator, fresh water gen- erator, communications and navi- gational devices and safety and fire fighting gadgets. Keppel

Shipyard will also design, fabri- cate, construct and install a flare tower and helideck. A turret single point mooring system complete with structural reinforcement will also be put up at the vessel's bow.

Keppel has also been involved in the conversion of Teekay Canada's 106,668-dwt tanker Dampier

Spirit (Frontier Spirit), which is being converted to a FSU. An import and export system, a hydraulic system for valves and a forward and aft spread mooring system were installed besides a 10- ton deck crane, helideck and fire- fighting and navigational equip- ment. The accommodations and cargo control rooms were also mod- ified. The vessel's cargo tanks were blasted and recoated while the external hull was similarly treated for an on-location life of at least eight years.

The consolidation in the

Singapore repair industry contin- ues with the latest move being by Alan Thorpe, international editor that Sembawang Corp. has been swallowed up by the giant con- glomerate, Singapore

Technologies. This follows

Sembawang's earlier decision to merge with Jurong Shipyard

Limited (JSL) and Keppel's deci- sion to merge with Hitachi Zosen (Singapore).

Belgium's Dockwise, a leading heavy-lift shipping specialist, is to convert one of its 1983-built ves- sels into what it claims will be the world's largest heavy-lift semi-sub- mersible ship. In August, the 23,473-dwt Antiguan-registered

Mighty Servant 1 will arrive at

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) to

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