Offshore staff
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands -- Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors’first shallow water pipelay vessel has undergone a naming ceremony at the COSCO shipyard in Nantong, China.
TheStingray is designed to install pipelines from 6-60 in. (15.24-152.4 cm) diameter. Van Oord is primarily targeting S-lay in combination with shore approaches and associated activities in water depths of 5-100 m 16.4-328 ft) or more.
Additionally, the vessel can perform light offshore structure installations such as buoys and manifolds, hook-up, commissioning, piling, and midline tie-ins.
Stingray complements Van Oord’s more familiar offshore services, i.e. construction of landfalls, installation of rock, trench dredging and backfilling, and installation of single point mooring (SPM)-systems and gravity based structures (GBS).
The company says that by offering these activities as one integrated package, it will provide a unique one-stop shop concept for shallow water oil and gas developments.
Main particulars of the vessel:
• Length overall 120 m (393 ft)
• Breadth overall 40 m (131 ft)
• Design draft: 5 m (16.4 ft)
• Classification ABS XA1 Barge
• Accommodation up to 300 persons
• Total installed power 6 x 1,230 kW
• Mooring system 10 x 12 t Flipper Delta
• Crawler crane 250 t Kobelco 2500CE, 42-m (138-ft) boom
• Free deck area 2,000 sq m (21,528 sq ft)
• Allowable deck load 12.5 t/m2
• Tensioners 2 x 70 t capacity
• Welding stations 3 nos. fully automatic welding stations
• NDT / Repair Station 1 no.
• Field Joint stations 3 nos.
• Stinger Fixed, fully adjustable, 55 m (180 ft) length in two sections, ABS certified
• A&R winch 150 t capacity, upgradeable to 200 t
• Main crane 500t revolving crane (Liebherr)
• Main hook capacity: 500 t@18 m (59 ft) radius
• Crane pedestal suitable for upgrade to 2,000 t.
10/01/2012
