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Repair & Conversion

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Dubai Drydocks, UAE, which this year celebrates 20 years of operation, has completed the first of two tanker/FPSO conversions for Monte

Carlo's Single Buoy Moorings (SBM), part of Holland's IHC Caland Group.

The VLCC Mosocean arrived in Dubai during April 2002 and was renamed

Atlantic for the conversion operation.

She has now been re-delivered as the

Xikomba for use off the Angolan coast in West Africa. The 1974-built

Xikomba, measuring 1142 x 170.6 ft. (348 x 52 m) and having a deadweight of 256.715 tons, has a production capac- ity of 90,000 barrels per day and a stor- age capacity of 1,8m barrels. This con- version will also extend the life of the vessel by at least a further 10 years. The conversion project has involved vast amounts of steel, pipe, electrical, mechanical, painting and accommoda- tion work. In total over three million production hours have been used to

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The second FPSO project, involving the dwt Mystras 11, is currently in the final stages of completion at Dubai

Drydocks and due to sail from the Yard in October 2003.

Dubai Drydocks has also recently won a conversion contract in the form of

Bergesen's 360.700 dwt tanker Berge

Pioneer, which will be converted to a

Floating Storage Offshore unit (FSO) for use off Murmansk, Russia. The proj- ect work involves external and internal surface treatment, installation of tank heating coils, spread mooring system, vapor return line and refurbishment of existing valves and cargo lines. Part of the work will be the coating of the cargo tanks with Sigmaguard CSF. Due the cold harsh temperature in the North Sea, special insulation will be installed on deck steam and bunker lines. The tanker arrived off Fujairah at the end of August for extensive cleaning operations prior entering the shipyard at Dubai during early September.

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The diver goes down.

The owners of a 34.000-ton container vessel contacted Hydrex to carry out a repair requiring a 700 mm x 300 mm insert into the vessel's shell plating. A crack had developed in the plating right next to the bulkhead, which needed to be dealt with quickly before it became a major problem.

Hydrex was called upon to carry out the work, and immediately it dispatched a diving team to the vessel's location in

Panama. The first call was to a local company where an appropriate sized mobdock was constructed to cover the area over the hull that needed replace- ment. Once satisfied that the mobdock was to the standards required, a meeting with all appropriate staff was held. The first step of the actual repair was to fit mobdock underwater over the affected area. Once complete, the team started to cut out a part of the bulkhead over the area where the external plating had to be replaced. The defective hull plating was then cropped out, corners rounded off.

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