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60 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News ? APRIL 2013 ABB: $160m to Provide Electrical Systems for Drill ShipsABB won orders worth $160m from Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd. for the design, supply, supervision of installa- tion, testing and commissioning of the main electrical systems for seven next generation drill ships that will operate in the deep water oil and gas Þ elds off the coast of Brazil. The ships will be used to drill wells in the offshore pre-salt Þ elds off the southeast coast of Bra- zil. ABB?s integrated electrical package will provide a reliable power supply to subsystems onboard ships and help the operators maximize their energy ef Þ ciency. The seven vessels are the Þ rst in a series of high-efÞ ciency drill ships designed for ultra-deep water operations and built by Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz at their shipyard on the central eastern coast of Espirito Santo, Brazil. It is a wholly-owned shipyard of the Jurong Shipyard based in Singapore.ABB?s scope of supply includes complete electri- cal systems including generators, distribution switch-boards, transformers, drives and motors to power the ships? thrusters and drilling systems. All ABB solutions meet or exceed IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and the customer?s standards for safety and are in full compliance with strict IMO (Interna-tional Maritime Organization) regulations to ensure uninterrupted drilling operations. Equipment deliveries to the shipyard are scheduled for 2013, with the Þ rst vessel to be delivered to the shipowner in the second quarter of 2015.Kongsberg Offshore Vessel Simulator for BibbyBibby Ship Management India contracted Kongsberg Maritime to deliver a Kongsberg Offshore Vessel Sim- ulator (KOVS) including an upgrade of the customer?s existing Kongsberg Dynamic Positioning (DP) simula- tor in Mumbai. The scope of supply for the delivery includes a Kongsberg Offshore Vessel Simulator with visual scene, featuring Anchor Handling vessel, Shuttle Tanker and Drilling Rig models, enabling advanced offshore operations exercises and courses covering: Manual Handling OSV, Anchor Handling, Offshore Loading, Position Reference, Drilling Rig Operation, Power Management, Ship Manoeuvring, Advanced ECDIS, Bridge Team Management, Bridge Resource Management and Pilotage.The existing Kongsberg DP simulator will also be up- graded to a DP2 simulator fulÞ lling DNV/NI class A re- quirement as part of the project. The DP simulator will be integrated with the KOVS, providing the possibility to run DP2 courses with sea time reduction in addition to complete offshore vessel training. Glosten Associates to Design FPS DemonstratorThe Glosten Associ- ates, Inc. won a contract from the U.K.?based Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) for the engineering phase of the ß oating offshore wind turbine demonstrator using the PelaStar ten-sion leg platform (TLP) foundation system. The $6m, 12-month contract will complete the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) in advance of construction and deploy-ment of a six MW dem- onstration unit off the south coast of the U.K. as early as 2015. The fast-growing team includes: ? Alstom Renovables España S.L. (Barcelona, Spain) to provide their cutting-edge Haliade 150-6MW off- shore wind turbine; ? Harland and Wolff (Belfast, Ireland) to build the PelaStar foundation; ? Dockwise (Breda, The Netherlands) to provide the offshore logistics; ? Cefas (Suffolk, U.K.) leading the environmental re- view; ? NREL (Golden CO) providing expertise in system modeling, instrumentation and test planning;? Det Norske Veritas (DNV) (Hovik, Norway) for proj- ect certiÞ cation; and ? MARIN (Wageningen, The Netherlands) for compre- hensive scale model testing3030 E. Pershing St.Appleton, WI 54911 [email protected] Phone: (920) 738-5432Fax: (920) 738-5435Visit us at OTC 2013 Booth # 4040TECHNICALOFFSHORE VESSELS & SYSTEMSMR #4 (58-65).indd 60MR #4 (58-65).indd 604/4/2013 3:43:52 PM4/4/2013 3:43:52 PM