Vessels & Shipyards

After decades of boom on what seemed to be an unlimited North Sea oil and gas bonanza, production levels are beginning to finally beginning to dip.

The arctic holds huge potential for the oil & gas industry although it looks like modifications will be necessary for hardware, processes and crew work patterns.

“We’ve seen the oil and gas industry extending its reach steadily north in recent years,” says Ove Wilhelmsen of Wärtsilä, drawing with it a gradual change in support craft design.

Although Island Offshore want to keep the UT777 design’s ‘competitive advantage’ under wraps for as long as possible, Yrjar Garshol of Rolls-Royce gives Stevie Knight a sneak preview.

Dag Pike looks at a new tanker concept design from Japan, developed in response to an expected demand for transportation of liquid hydrogen.

A new generation of Deltamarin-designed bulk carriers optimised for trade on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence Seaway which has been phased into service by Canadian operator Algoma Central Corporation is described…

German company Voith says that its naval architects are behind a design for a novel offshore construction ship development in Germany and the UK.

Dag Pike describes a UK-designed, Turkish-built patrol vessel for the Middle East whose propulsion system is loosely based on offshore crew boat practice.

According to Michael Aamodt, group marine product manager of Hempel, the cost of marine corrosion worldwide is somewhere between US$50 billion and US$80 billion.