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Production
Lifting operations under-
P-63. way at the FPSO
Finland (Image: Wärtsilä) suppliers offer manufacturing expertise for deepwater needs
The offshore market is ultradeep pre-salt region off Brazil. group has won a pilot order from
Equipment deliveries to the ship- Norwegian owner Myklebusthaug. becoming of increasing yard are scheduled for 2013 with the The grid is being installed a new- importance to Finnish suppliers, frst drillship due for delivery in 2Q build platform supply vessel, Dina partly because of the current 2015. Star, under construction at the downturn in traditional
The group has a couple of recent Kleven shipyard in Ulsteinvik. Dina shipbuilding orders. Finnish technological developments of Star is a 93m-long, 4800 GT type MT companies have a wealth of specifc interest for offshore applica- 6015 multipurpose oil feld supply offshore-related niche expertise tions. It continues to develop its fam- and construction vessel designed by from ice management to ily of azipod thrusters, built at fac- Norwegian company Marin Teknikk. tories in Finland and China. There It has fve variable-speed diesel gen- automatic welding for shipyards. are now around 230 azipod systems erators, four rated at 2300 kW and
Meg Chesshyre went to in operation worldwide with 24/7 one at 930 kW, two 2200 kW main Helsinki to fnd out more.
maintenance and modernization propulsion units and three addi-
Global power and automation back-up. Azipod XO is the newest tional thrusters for DP operations.
specialist ABB Marine received a member of the family in the 4.5 to 25 The new DC system merges the
US$160 million order this spring MW power range. A compact Azipod various DC links around the ves- from the Jurong shipyard in C series is available for the power sel and distributes power through
Singapore for the design, supply, range up to 4.5 MW. The emphasis is a single 1000V DC circuit, thereby installation, testing and commission- on continuing to improve operation eliminating the need for main AC ing of the main electrical systems and maintenance costs. switchboards, distributed rectifers, for seven next generation drill- ABB’s new onboard DC grid is and converter transformers with con- ships being built to operate in the now commercially available and the sequent weight savings. All electric
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