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The PICKUPCAT concept is based on dividing a vessel in two seperote parts: a self contained catamaran containing power, propulsion and steering functions and an interchangeable cargo carrying unit.

The assembled units retain the same strength and structural properties as that of a traditional hull construction. The time spent in port engage/disengage two seperate units less than 2 hours. the takes " . :" • •• * - - v" Jt^Li'^- z&i

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The cargo unit may serve as a floating storage facil- ity, independently of the propulsion unit which is free to operate elsewhere.

While at sea, the two units operate as one ship.

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Phone: ( + 47) 23 12 06 08 e-mail: [email protected]

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GAYLORD Main Particulars

Flag Panama

Classification DNV

Length, (o.a.) 835 ft. (255 m)

Breadth 125 ft. (38 m)

GT 63,003 metric tons, 63,190 tons

Displacement 100,000 metric tons

Deadweight 93,117 metric tons

Draft ....12m, plus 6 m for thruster

Fuel consumption . 191 g/KWH-engine

Main engines 4 Wartsila 18V32 and 2 12V32 52,200

Thrusters Kamewa

Generators ABB Vetco

Emergency generator Wartsila

Motor starters ABB

Engine controls Woodward/Simrad

Coatings Hempel Coating System

VHF radio Skanti and Sailor

Radar

Compass Gyro Compass

GPS

Autopilot Robertson

SATNAV Kongsberg Simrad

Pumps Hamworthy

Heat exchangers .. Alfa Laval

Lifeboats Norsafe

Waste management system Omnipure

Derrick Dual activity 226 ft. Dreco design

Pipe handling Varco PRS-5

Tensioners Hydralift

Great Ships of 1999

Dllll/lm* (llllll I A nl^n Builder (Hull) Astano

Modules Integration Ingalls

Vessel name Discoverer Enterprise

Vessel type Drillship

Owner Transocean Offshore

Transocean Offshore's Discoverer

Enterprise is known as the world's largest, most technologically advanced drillship designed for the reduction of ultra-deepwater well-construction costs with developments that elevate the process to a new level of operational efficiency. With more than 20 years of favorable deepwater experience behind them, Transocean's revolutionary drilling vessel has been engineered from the top of the derrick - to the thrusters - to optimize ultra-deepwater well-con- based shipyard completed the rigs out- fitting and erected all of its major mod- ules.

Both massive and multipurpose, Dis- coverer Enterprise can drill, test and complete wells to 35,000 ft. in water depths up to 10,000 ft. It is equipped to provide extended well testing and stor- age capabilities and allows a variety of subsea operations, including the poten- tial for j-laying ultra-deepwater pipelines.

These capabilities were formulated with a cost-effective solution in provid- ing sophisticated ultra-deepwater drilling operation on an international basis. With its patent pending, the dual- activity design allows drilling opera- tions to perform concurrently in parallel - rather than in a sequential series - attacking the "flat times," which can consume up to 65 percent of well-con- struction time on ultra-deepwater wells.

Results expected from this design pro- vide a favorable concept - reduction in the amount of drilling days - leading to cuts in both drilling time and well costs. struction and field devel- opment performance.

Transocean Offshore owns the vessel, which was constructed at El Fer- rol, Spain. Supplementary to this is Ingalls Shipbuild- ing's test and trials contract with BP-

Amoco Corporation. The Pascagoula-

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