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PATENTS RECEIvED & PENDING more owners want – a self-elevating try, while still meeting or exceeding The vessel can carry the components unit that can do everything. It can all design factors of safety based for an entire wind turbine in a single work in the wind farm area with its on class and other standards. This trip. It will be the “smallest” vessel liftboat-type jacking system. It can vessel may have the largest dead- to receive the ABS Wind IMR certif- also be ftted with a drilling package weight tonnage/displacement ratio (a cation.

to work in the oil and gas industry. measure of merit in ROI) of its type. In the same lineage is the SUDA

Also under construction are four DWT is the displacement at any 260-L3, currently owned by Hercules 335-ft-leg liftboats (SUDA 335-L3), loaded condition minus the lightship and operating in the Middle East. each with 160-passenger capacity weight. This vessel has a deck load capacity and large deck area and variable The SUDA 300-L3, like the SUDA over 915-ton, and a depth of only deck load. Each vessel includes a 335-L3, also features the shortest 11ft. A similar vessel in this series is custom jacking system based on the towers of any vessel in its class, operating in West Africa.

one developed for the SUDA 300- worldwide. SUDA assisted the jack-

L3 currently under construction in ing system vendor in developing this Ajay K. Suda,

Houma, Louisiana. effcient jacking system design for president of A. K.

The SUDA 300-L3 is scheduled this unique application. This liftboat Suda, Inc., a frm of for delivery in 3Q 2013. This design will carry a very high variable load naval architects and features a hull depth of 13ft, no more and will also have the longest usable marine engineers than what is absolutely necessary to leg length for a vessel in its class. that provides design provide a strong, stable, and eff- Suda designs typically incorporate and engineering cient working platform. The saving capabilities for multiple uses. Thus, services to the maritime industry. in hull weight benefts the leg and the SUDA 300-L3 can work as an ac- Suda holds a B.Tech in Naval jacking system design, which in commodation vessel, for oil produc- Architecture and Marine Engineering turn, improves variable load carry- tion operations such as coiled tubing from the Indian Institute of Technol- leg design has a ing capacity. The operations, cantilever, skid mount- ogy, and an M.S.E. in Naval Archi- lower weight per foot, based on ing, as well as for wind turbine tecture and Marine Engineering from comparable designs in the i ndus- installation, maintenance, and repair. the University of Michigan.

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