Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Rolls-Royce has landed contracts for six platform supply vessels (PSV) for South America, including the first offshore orders from Chile. Total value of the contracts is about $88 million.
Companhia Brasileira de Offshore has ordered four UT-Design type UT 715 L offshore supply vessel design and equipment packages. The 3,000 dwt PSVs are to be built by Allianca shipyard near Rio de Janeiro for delivery in 2009 and 2010. The vessels will go directly into long-term charters with Petrobras.
The other UT-Design contract is from Chilean shipyard Astilleros y Servicios Navales S.A, which is to build two UT 745 CD (clean design) supply vessels for an international ship owner.
These new orders are in addition to 10 UT-Design vessels currently under construction in Brazil.
At the end of 2006, ASMAR Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Co. based in Talcahuano, Chile, won a contract to build a coastguard vessel for Iceland, using a new UT512 L design and equipment package from Rolls-Royce.
2/19/2007
