Chinese oil company chooses Norwegian design

The new vessel is going to be built at a Chinese shipyard and will be delivered Q2 2012. Operator of the vessel will be Shanghai Offshore Oil Bureau, which is a fully owned subsidiary of Sinopec Corp. Shanghai Offshore Oil Bureau currently operates eight offshore vessels and has one Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) under construction.

Havyard Group shall deliver basic design, detail engineering and support to owner and shipyard during construction of the vessel. Havyard’s knowledge and experience within ship design, ship building and support to vessels in operation enables it to offer support to owner and shipyard for securing a successful execution of the project. Both owner and shipyard will have access to Havyard Group’sshipyards in Norway for useful exchange of experience and knowledge based on similar vessels built at these shipyards.

The 81m long, 19.50m wide Havyard 843 CD was developed by Havyard Design and is the next generation AHTS. High emphasis is put on good stability, safe operation and efficient and building friendly solutions for competitive building and operating cost. The vessel will be equipped with a new concept for the AHT winch arrangement which will ensure safer and more efficient operation than existing vessels. The concept is to replace the traditional ‘waterfall’ winch drum configuration with a ‘side by side configuration. This gives lower centre of gravity and better stability in anchor handling operations. There is also high focus on environmental issues and the vessel is designed to satisfy the requirements of Clean Class.