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AMC Installs MODU

Mooring System

Aker Marine Contractors, Inc. (AMC) has completed the design, pre-installation, hook-up and dis- connect, in cooperation with

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., of the Ocean Lexington's special moorings at the Oryx Neptune

Spar in VK-826 in July. The mobile offshore drilling unit's (MODU) special mooring system allowed the rig to drill additional wells at the Spar location while the Spar was moved over to the

SW by about 250 ft. on its own moorings. AMC has also completed installation of two taut leg supply boat mooring systems utilizing suction embedded anchors to ser- vice the Chevron Genesis Spar in the Gulf of Mexico.

MAN B&W Diesel's

MC Engines Pass 75 Million BHP Mark

With almost 5,000 engines in service or on order, MAN B&W

Diesel's successful MC series have recently passed the 75 million bhp milestone, the last 25 million bhp being logged in three years. The

MC two-stroke engine programme offers a choice from 24 engine mod- els of the K, L and S-types, with cylinder diameters ranging from 26 to 98 cm bore and the power range from 1,500 bhp to 93,320 bhp.

Two Stroke MC Engines

As at 8/1/1998

No. of MC type engines

Bore On order or delivered In service 98 7 0 90 159 127 80 424 363 70 647 533 60 1,371 1,162 50 1,082 860 46 24 1 42 192 156 35 906 767 26 167 150

Total 4,979 4,119

Total = 75,373,046 bhp - 55,436,875 kW

Two LM6000 Gas Turbines

For Schiehallion FPSO

GE Industrial Aeroderivative

Gas Turbines (GE-IAD) announced that two LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbines, sold and packaged by

Alstom Gas Turbines Limited (Alstom), have started-up commer- cially on the Schiehallion floating production, storage, and off-load- ing vessel (FPSO) located 200 km west of the Shetland Islands.

Producing some 80 mw of electrical power together, the two gas tur- bines provide the main on-board power generation for the vessel.

The vessel's storage capacity of 950,000 barrels of crude oil can be off-loaded onto shuttle tankers at a rate of 600,000 barrels per 24 hours.

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