Vision 2010 - Rolls-Royce

No 1/2010
Contents
page 28:
Island Wellserver feedback
page 15: Launching heavy anchors
page 12: 30 years of Les Abeilles
3..............................................................................................................................................Viewpoint
4-5.....................................................................................................................................................News
6-11............................................................................. The future of offshore vessel design
12-13....................................................................................................... 30 years of Les Abeilles
14............................................................................................................................Recent deliveries
15-17..........................................................................................Advances in deck machinery
18...........................................................................................................................New towing tank
19..........................................................................................................Coast guard goes for gas
20-21.................................................................................. New customer training capacity
22-23............................................................................................................Improving operation
24.........................................................................................................................Service expansion
25-27............................................................................................................................E&P deliveries
28-30...........................................................................Value for money – Island Wellserver
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Editor: Ellen Kvalsund
Contributors: Marianne
Hovden and Richard White
Design and layout:
I&M Kommunikasjon AS
Printed by: Egsetviketrykk AS
Circulation: 11,000
Photos in this issue:
Oda Spurkeland (p. 5),
Bourbon (p. 12-13),
Farstad Shipping (p. 14),
OMS Schiffart (p. 14),
Island Offshore (p. 14),
Richard White (p. 18-19),
Kleven Maritime (p. 19),
Sea Trucks Group (p. 25),
Aker Solutions (p. 26),
BP Norge AS (p. 27),
J. Ray McDermott (p. 27),
Statoil (p. 28 and 30),
Arild Gilja (p. 29-30).
Contact: Rolls-Royce
Communications Dept.,
NO-6065 Ulsteinvik, Norway
Tel. +47 815 200 70
Fax +47 700 140 05
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VISION
HigHligHtS in tHiS iSSue: tHe future of ancHor Handling veSSelS, page 9 | new cuStomer
training capacity, page 20 | advanceS in deck macHinery, page 15
Front page: The UT790 CD
showcases radical new
thinking in anchorhandler
design. Read more on page 9.
Nothing stands still in
the offshore world
As exploration and production moves into new
regions with harsh climates and deeper waters,
new technologies are required. This provides
challenges to Rolls-Royce support vessel and
system designers – challenges they thrive on.
We are now introducing new ship designs
and products that we have been developing to
meet the industry’s future needs, and some are
presented in this issue of Vision.
Starting with ship design, we have the new
UT 790 CD anchorhandler, incorporating the
latest research into hull resistance and motions
in a seaway. This will provide owners with a
working platform meeting current and foreseen
regulations, combining power and safety for
anchorhandling operations in deep water and
tough conditions. To achieve this, we have
radically changed the traditional layout, moving
the hybrid propulsion machinery further aft
and the main and secondary winches forward
and down to lower the centre of gravity, and
wrapped them in a low resistance hullform
meeting Clean Design rules.
On deck, we are bringing in new solutions to
further improve safety and to handle new deepwater
anchors. One is a system for launching
and decking the heavy Torpedo anchors.
Another is a way of severing lines quickly
should an emergency situation arise during an
anchorhandling operation, rather than using
the standard emergency release procedure of
paying out line from the winch.
Rolls-Royce is making major investments in
upgrading existing service facilities and opening
new service centres in key locations around
the world. Some 650 UT-series vessels have
been delivered, with many more on order, and
even the earliest vessels are still giving good
service. Supporting these, the huge amount
of Rolls-Royce equipment in other vessels, and
the thrusters, engines and deck machinery in
rigs and drillships, is a high priority. The centre
in Galveston, USA, is now in full operation.
The upgraded service base in Rio, Brazil, has
just opened, as has a centre in Genoa, Italy, to
improve service in the Mediterranean region.
Finally, it is always rewarding when a new
technology is proven to be successful. The
UT 737 L Island Frontier did pioneering work
and UT 767 CD Island Wellserver, working for
StatoilHydro in the Norwegian sector of the
North Sea, has conclusively shown that light
well stimulation from vessels instead of rigs is
not only feasible, but very successful and costeffective.
We have received very positive reports
from the owner and the oil major on the vessel’s
seakeeping and its excellence as a working
platform and a place to live.
Best regards,
Anders Almestad
President – Offshore
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