Lloyd Werft gets Schlumberger conversions

Schlumberger’s Ariane Labadens told The Motorship Tuesday the operator “has selected Lloyd Werft to convert two newly-built

and

chartered platform supply vessels, owned by Isl

and

Offshore, into state of the art well-services vessels for operation in the North Sea”.

She provided no further details of the contract or name the ships. However, one of the company’s fleet of offshore vessels, Isl

and

Centurion, is currently in Bremerhaven

and

a German media report said she

and

sister ship Isl

Captain were the two ships earmarked for conversion.

It was not known how long the work would last, what it would entail or cost

and

when the second ship would arrive but further details were expected soon.

The ships are 93m long

and

20m wide

and

of 4,600dwt. They were completed just last year at STX OSV Brevik Shipyard in Norway for Isl

and

Offshore, which is based in the Dutch Antilles.

They belong to a series of UT 776 CD supply vessels for general deck or liquid cargo transport

and

boast 1,000 m² of deck area. Driven by four RRM Bergen C25:33L 6ACD main engines, they each have two propellers Type AZP 120 CP/2500kW from RRM in Ulsteinvik as well as an azimuth swing-up thruster Type TCNS07 3CP/883kW

and

two tunnel thrusters of Type TT2200 DPN CP/883kW also from RRM Ulsteinvik.

Two of the ships in the series are gas fuelled.

Isl

Contender

and

Isl

Crusader, completed this year, are of UT 776 CDG design, where G st

and

s for LNG gas operation. They are described as the first offshore supply vessels in the world to operate in DP II without using diesel

and

with Rolls-Royce designed lean-burn, gas-powered engines.