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In the Shipyard

Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs

EASTERN SHIPBUILDING,

HOS TEAM TO CONVERT OSV TO SOV

HOS

U.S. offshore vessel owner Hornbeck Offshore Services, According to Hornbeck Offshore, the service operation ves- best known for its offshore oil and gas support vessel servic- sel will have the capacity to accommodate up to 90 or more es, is looking at business opportunities in the growing U.S. persons in ? otel or offshore wind service mode, with safe, step- offshore wind sector as well as in offshore accommodation less walk-to-work transfer capabilities in up to 2.5m sea states. services in the oil and gas area. The SOV will be equipped with an Uptime 30m motion-

For that, Covington, La. based Hornbeck Offshore contract- compensated offshore gangway, a 10-ton 3D-compensated ed Eastern Shipbuilding Group to convert one of its recently crane, helideck, enclosed warehouse and stepless boat landing. acquired 280-foot offshore supply vessels (OSV) to a service Its existing diesel-electric powerplant will be enhanced by operation vessel (SOV) to meet the growing demand of the a 1,500 kW-hour battery hybrid power system, enabling re-

U.S. offshore wind market, as well as to serve the demands of duced emission during offshore operations and in harbor tran- the petro-energy ? otel market. sit, the U.S.-based shipowner said.

Capable of supporting both construction and O&M activi- The SOV accommodations will be constructed to ABS ties, the U.S. ? ag, Jones Act-compliant vessel was originally Comfort Class habitability notation standards, and, Hornbeck constructed by Eastern in 2014 and will be converted at the Offshore said, will include a host of onboard amenities typical company’s 300-acre Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Fla. It of a newbuild SOV. is expected to be available in the spring of 2025. Hornbeck is not the ? rst U.S. offshore vessel owner to con-

The HOSSOV 300E has been designed in collaboration with vert an oil and gas supply vessel for work in the U.S. offshore

VARD, the original designer of the vessel, to address the key wind market. Des Allemands, La. based Otto Candies is con- "desirements" of the U.S. offshore wind client community based verting two of its OSVs to operate as SOVs for wind projects upon VARD's other recent SOV designs, Hornbeck Offshore said. in waters off the U.S. Northeast coast.

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Launches LNG Bunkering Vessel KEYS Azalea

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding christened and launced a lique? ed natural gas (LNG) bunker- ing vessel, the ? rst to operate in western Japan, built under contract for KEYS Bunkering

West Japan Co., Ltd. The ceremony took place at the Enoura Plant at MHI's Shimonoseki

Shipyard & Machinery Works in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The new vessel, christened KEYS

Azalea, is scheduled for delivery in March 2024 following out? tting work and sea trials.

KEYS Azalea is equipped with a dual fuel generator engine capable of using both

LNG and marine diesel oil as fuel, a ? rst for LNG bunkering vessel in Japan. When operating in gas mode, it will provide exceptional environmental performance with considerably reduced emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur oxide (SOx), and particulate matter (PM).

KEYS Bunkering West Japan is a joint venture company established in February 2022 to supply LNG fuel for ships and operate a coastal transportation business in the

Kyushu and Setouchi Regions.

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