Offshore staff

ADELAIDE, Western Australia -- Accommodation supplier Australian Portable Camps is to deploy its first 292-person floating accommodation and construction vessel on an eight-month contract in the Bass Strait.

The company will be taking delivery of the vessel in January 2008, according to a company spokesman.

Named theAussie1one, the vessel is being built by Singapore-based Kim Heng shipyard. It will be classed ABS A1 unrestricted services and is being equipped with pipelay capacity for 8-in. to 48-in. (20.3-121.9 cm), 90-metric-ton (99.2-ton) pipelay tensioner and a 100-metric-ton (110-ton) pipelay abandonment/recovery winch as well as other equipment necessary for performing construction work.

APC is planning a second similar accommodation and construction vessel as part of a major diversification program for the company, which has been a supplier of accommodation units for onshore oil and gas projects in Australia.

4/19/2007