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OFFSHORE SERVICE VESSELS

Powering up for deep water efficiency

Can more powerful offshore vessels be a benefit to the environment? Tommy Walaunet, Managing Director at Norwegian offshore ship owner Island Offshore is certain of it.

By Saul Trewern

While facing the same challenging mar- despite its size and power, environmental er of 477 tonnes recorded, smashing the ket conditions as offshore vessel own- credentials. existing record of 423 tonnes. ers and service companies worldwide, Simply put, Island Offshore’s new deep Such tests could be viewed as at least

Norway’s Island Offshore recently broke water installation Vessel ‘Island Victory’ is an irrelevance, when the world faces the free from the enforced conservatism of the most powerful multi-purpose offshore effects of man-made climate change, but the E&P sector, by adding not just a new vessel ever built; a point proven during Tommy Walaunet, Managing Director at ship to its fleet, but one that re-writes the bollard pull tests conducted by its builder Island Offshore is quick to point out that rulebook in capabilities, technology and VARD last November with a towing pow- Island Victory’s extreme power and com-

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