Marine Log - October 2008 - (Page 11)

Sundial Marine constructs world’s largest hover barge Wärtsilä acquires ship designer CWA Wärtsilä acquired Singapore naval architecture and ship design company Conan Wu & Associates Pte Ltd (CWA) for EURO 23 million. The deal includes partnership agreements with CWA’s businesses in Malaysia, China and Hong Kong. The acquisition will broaden Wärtsilä’s ship design competence and capability. CWA is known for its design of offshore vessels, tugs, barges and smaller merchant vessels. All employees will keep their jobs and continue on as Wärtsilä employees. According to Dato Conan Wu, Chairman of CWA, “Being a part of Wärtsilä will allow CWA to realize its huge potential, both in Asia as well as in other markets.” S across the Taku river. undial Marine, Troutdale, Ore., is It is fitted with four diesel propelled currently completing the world’s fans that lift the barge off of the surface largest hover barge at its construcon its on—that can include water, ice and tion and repair facility based on the the ground. The barge, however, will Columbia River. require a tug The hover for transportabarge, the first to tion since it is be built in North not self proAmerica, will pelled. measure 200 ft x Sundial is 85 ft. It will be also set to comdelivered to The world’s largest hover barge under construcplete a 120 ft x Canadian-based tion at Sundial’s facility 35 floating RedCorps Ltd. dock for Bay Link Ferry sytem in Caliby the end of this year, where its intendfornia, in addition to a double-hull ed use will be to support mining operapetroleum barge—the last in a series of tions in Canada. eight—for the U.S. Navy. The double The barge,constructed with DH-36 hull barges are able to carry 14,000 bbl of low temperature steel and built to ABS standard, will have the capability of haul- diesel or jet fuel, the final unit is expected to be delivered by the end of this year. ing more than 400 tons of cargo and ore Sembcorp Marine’s PPL shipyard secures contracts for multiple jack up rigs Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL shipyard secured a $425 million contract to consturct two jack-up rigs for the Egyptian Offshore Drilling Company, S.A.E. The rigs will be based on PPL’s prorietary design Baker Marine Pacific class 375 mobile offshore drilling unit. The rigs are able to perform in 375 ft of water and drill up to 30,000 ft in high temperature and high pressure wells. The rigs can accommodate up to 120 people. The Egyptian Offshore Drilling Company isn’t the only company getting drilling rigs from PPL Shipyard. PPL also secured a contract worth $229 million from China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation-Sinopec International, making this rig the first newbuild jack up rig to be constructed outside of China. The rig will also be of the Pacific class 375 design. It’s scheduled delivery is for the first quarter in 2011. http://www.eagle.org

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