MacGregor equipment for Malaysia

Two of the three 80m ice-class vessels being built for the international offshore oilfield services provider, are designed for support services. The third is a multi-purpose duty rescue vessel.

All will have a 60 tonne bollard pull and will be equipped with MacGregor electro-hydraulic windlass/mooring winches, capstans, tugger winches and storage reels, along with anchor handling/towing winches with a 120 tonne line pull and 200 tonne brake holding capacity.

“MacGregor is very well positioned to deliver offshore deck equipment for highly specialised offshore support vessels designed to work in extremely low temperature environments such as Arctic region and Caspian Sea,” said Francis Wong, vice president, segment Sales, offshore.

“This leading market position has recently been strengthened by a number of important acquisitions, which means that we now have a comprehensive portfolio to meet customers’ specific operational requirements,” he added.

The first two vessels, which are destined to operate in the Caspian Sea, will be built at Keppel Nantong Shipyard in China, while the third vessels will be built at Keppel Singmarine in Singapore. All three are classified with the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.

Equipment delivery is scheduled for November 2014.

MacGregor has also won an order from Bumi Armada Berhad to supply a Pusnes offloading system for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) conversion project.

Bumi Armada will use a recently built ice-class tanker for the FPSO conversion, which will take place at Keppel Shipyard Ltd in Singapore. Once completed, FPSO Armada Kraken will have a total storage capacity of 600,000 barrels and will be deployed at the Kraken field located in the UK sector of the North Sea.

The Pusnes offloading system will be delivered by March 2015.