Page 82: of Offshore Engineer Magazine (May/Jun 2013)

81 83

a new service strategy including a special crane for pipe handling to offshore awards for TTS have been building up extensive service hubs be installed on a drillship ordered the supply of a 135tonne subsea worldwide. by Sigma Drilling The contract with crane to Ulstein’s Seven Viking and

The Sigma contract is with STX STX also comprises an option for fve consecutive orders for large

Offshore & Shipbuilding Co, in Korea delivery of four identical equipment offshore cranes for Kleven offshore

Production and comprises the delivery of four installations. The delivery will take vessels.

large offshore cranes and equip- place in 3Q and 4Q 2014. In addition Following the completion of ment for riser handling, including to the Sigma Drilling award, recent the acquisition of Neuenfelder

Maschinenfabrik (NMF) in August 2012, TTS integrated all German crane operations into the TTS NMF company and facilities beginning in early March. The integrated team now covers the full range of cargo and offshore cranes from operations in Hamburg. TTS NMF has also delivered a 900 tonne, lattice boom windmill installation crane which will be installed on board of M/V

Aeolus operated by Dutch owner Van

Oord and built by Sietas Shipyard.

Wärtsilä

The offshore sector is a signifcant proportion of power solutions company Wärtsilä’s business, says

Magnus Miemois, vice president, solutions, in the ship power divi- sion. This is particular sobecause the merchant market is down. The sector comprises offshore drilling, FPSOs, and OSVs. Wärtsilä is a signifcant ship designer in the OSV sector. “We easily stand for 25%, sometimes 30% of the vessel value.”

A recent ship design contract is for a new diving support vessel (DSV) to be built for Subsea 7. The brand new VS 4725 DSV design has been created by Wärtsilä Ship Design specifcally for this vessel, which is being built at the Hyundai Heavy

Industries (HHI) shipyard in Korea and is scheduled for delivery in 2015.

Another ship design contract has just been awarded by Armada

Offshore MPSV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s Bumi

Armada Berhad, for a series of four multi-purpose platform support vessels (MPSV). The vessels will be built by a subsidiary of Malaysian shipbuilder Nam Cheong, in one

TTS NMF has also delivered a 900 tonne, lattice boom windmill installation of its subcontracted yards, Fujian Aeolus crane which will be installed on board of M/V operated by Dutch owner

Mawei Shipbuilding, in China.

Van Oord.

The order follows the successful

OE | May 2013 oedigital.com 84 0513OE_prod_ops3_chesshyre.indd 84 4/22/13 5:12 PM