UT-design for Island Offshore

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract for the delivery of design and equipment for an oil well intervention vessel that will allow operations previously only done from rigs or platforms. The Norwegian shipping company Island Offshore has entered a long-term contract with Statoil requiring a vessel capable of extracting more oil and gas from its wells on the Norwegian continental shelf.

The $122 million specialist ship is being built by Aker Yards, Langsten in Norway in a design and equipment deal worth around £14 million to Rolls-Royce.

“Now it will be possible to able to extract 10 per cent more oil and gas from every single oil well in a cheaper, safer and simpler way,” said general director Håvard Ulstein from Island Offshore. “Previously we had to use rigs or platforms as a basis for these kinds of operations,” he added.

The newly classified UT 767 CD is a development of Island Frontier with CD standing for ?Clean Design?, which means that the vessel has been designed to meet the strictest official requirements regarding health, environment and safety. Amongst other features, it is the first offshore vessel to meet the noise and vibration requirements of a cruise ship.

In addition to the UT-Design, Rolls-Royce will deliver four Bergen diesel engines, propulsion equipment, deck machinery and automation systems.