Offshore News| NEW ROVSURVEY SHIP DELIVERED TO OSTENSJO NORWEGIAN TEXT MS Edda Fonn ble dopt ved fossefallet Sju Sostre i Geirangerfjorden. Akkurat da solen tittet fram lordag ettermiddag. Skipsreder Johannes Ostensjo's yngste datter Sonja, var gudmor for den hittil siste tilveksten til flaaten i Ostensjo Rederi AS. 100 inviterte gjester var med paa daapsseremonien ved det beromte fossefallet i Geirangerfjorden en halvtimes reise fra Geiranger. Edda Fonn er bygget ved Myklebust Verft paa Sunnmore. gjestene gikk om bod i skipet ved verftet i Gurskebotn, og ble fraktet inn Geirangerfjorden. Etter daapen gikk skipet videre til Geiranger, hvor det var daapsmiddag. Administrerende direktor Johannes Rokstad er full av lovord baade om verftet og skipet, og han mottok ogsaa mange superlativer om Edda Fonn fra deltakerne paa jomfruturen. Edda Fonn er et saakalt ROV/Survey-skip. Det er moderfartoy for en fjernstyrt miniubaat (ROV) og skal drive inspeksjon og kartlegging av sjobunnen, i forste omgang i Nordsjoen. Skipet er utleid til Deep Ocean, og skal gaa i selskapets kontrakter med Norsk Hydro og Statoil. Den forste jobben blir aa kartlegge den nye rorledningen fra Ormen Lange til England, opplyser Rokstad. Haugesunds-rederiet har i forste omgang inngaatt en treaarig avtale, med to aarlige opsjoner for Edda Fonn. Skipet er rederiets nybygg nummer 30, det 24 i Norge. Naar Ostensjo Rederi overtar Edda Fonn i neste uke, har rederiet 21 skip i flaaten sin. Rene yachten Sier Johan Rokstad om nyskipet. Edda Fonn er registrert i NOR det ordinaere norske skipsregisteret. Skipet har norsk mannskap. Besetningen vil variere fra 11 til 16. Fartoyet er designet av Skipsteknisk AS i Aalesund, og har typebetegnelsen ST-253. Det er 84,7 meter langt og 18 meter bredt. Det har en 100-tonnskran og helikopterdekk. Toppfarten er 17 knop. Mannskap og arbeidere faar gode forhold om bord. Edda Fonn har 38 enkle og 14 doble lugarer, tre salonger, messe, trimrom, solarium og badstu. |
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| NEW ROVSURVEY VESSEL New ROV vessel delivered to Ostensjo Rederi in June 2003. The vessel was christened to "Edda Fonn" on 10.05. in Geiranger,Norway.The vessel is 84,7m L and 18m W, it is rigged with a 100T crane and is on a 3year charter to DeepOcean with 2x1year option. The vessel have DP2 class. Read more about this newbuilding and the rest of the Ostensjo fleet at: 
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USD 56 million contract for MSV Regalia on Girassol . Prosafe Rigs Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Prosafe ASA, has received a letter of intent from Total E&P Angola as the Operator of Block 17 offshore Angola for the use of MSV Regalia in relation to the modification of the Girassol FPSO that will be done to tie-in the 25-well Rosa subsea development. The contract has a fixed duration of 12 months plus additional 4 x 1 month option periods, and will commence between 1 October and 31 December 2005. The start-up window will be narrowed down to two months later this autumn, and down to one month no later than six months prior to start up. The contract includes a minor upgrade of MSV Regalia to comply with special requirement from Total E&P Angola. The upgrade has an estimated cost of USD 9 million which will be compensated by the client. Total contract value, net of local withholding tax, is USD 56 million, excluding options, but including the upgrade of USD 9 million and contribution to mobilisation and demobilisation of total USD 5 million. This is Prosafe's third contract for dynamic positioned support to an FPSO in west Africa. The market for such rigs is strong, and the number of demand drivers and prospects in several geographical markets, as well as the day rate level, serve to support our positive view on the future for accommodation and service rigs. Prosafe's strategy is to maintain its leading position in this market globally. We will therefore continue to work actively to maintain the largest and best fleet in order to serve coming demand, regardless of location, demand driver and contract duration. The Rosa field is located in water depths ranging from 1,300 to 1,500 metres and is about 15 kilometres from the Girassol FPSO. The field is scheduled to come on stream in the first half of 2007, and it will raise and prolong the peak production of the FPSO. Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) is the Block 17 Concessionaire. Total's coventurers in the Block are Esso Exploration Angola (Block 17) Ltd, BP Exploration (Angola) Ltd, Statoil Angola Block 17 AS and Norsk Hydro. Prosafe is the world's leading owner and operator of semi-submersible service rigs, a leading platform drilling contractor in Norway and a major owner and operator of floating production and storage vessels outside the North Sea. Operating revenues reached USD 415 million in 2003. The company has approx. 2,000 employees. Prosafe operates in the North Sea, South East Asia, India, Egypt, West Africa and the Gulf of Mexico. The company is headquartered by Stavanger, Norway. Prosafe is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange with ticker code PRS. For more information, please refer to www.prosafe.com. Tananger, 19 August 2004 For more information, please contact: Arne Austreid, President & CEO Prosafe ASA Phone no +47 51 64 25 81 / +47 900 77 334 Stig Christiansen, Exec. VP & CFO Prosafe ASA Phone no: +47 51 64 25 30 / +47 900 85 961 Trygve Arnesen, President Prosafe Offshore Ltd Phone no +47 901 81 966 . " Normand Mermaid" DP3 class vesselNormand Mermaid is a MPSV and have DP class 3 system installed.You can view the specification of this vessel and all of the Solstad fleet on www.solstad.no |
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vessel to be fuelled by LNG. Following three years of development the time has now come to commission the world's first gas-driven supply ship. The ship is an important part of the work on limiting emissions from the maritime industry. The naming ceremony took place in Bergen Harbour on Friday April 25th 2003 at 17:00 The godmother is the city governor of Bergen, Mrs. Anne-Grete Erichsen. The Norwegian shipping company Eidesvik AS took the initiative for, and headed the development of the gas-driven ship concept in close cooperation with Statoil. The project comprises two ships, where Eidesvik AS and Simon Mokster Shipping AS will own and operate one ship each. Both ships will be on a ten-year charter for Statoil. This innovation is attracting considerable attention in the industry both in Norway and internationally. The new concept is that natural gas (LNG) is employed as a fuel. Natural gas is an abundant resource in Norway and the country exports large quantities through pipelines to Europe. But use of the gas in Norway has been moderate up to now. Making a commitment to emission-free ships Eidesvik sees that the environmental technology can be further developed. "We see that the next generation of gas-driven ships probably can be simplified and made cheaper. The development of this vessel has also put us on the track of technology that can further reduce emissions," says Managing Director Simon Eidesvik. Using gas reduces emissions of CO2 by about 20 per cent and NOx by about 85 per cent. There are no emissions of sulphurous gases. By replacing the engines with fuel-cell generators there will be no emissions of NOx, and CO2 emissions can be halved in relation to diesel operation. By using hydrogen as an energy source instead of LNG, the emission of CO2 will also cease. "The shipping company's objective is to develop ships with this technology and assessments have been started. It will probably take some years before hydrogen ships are launched, and we believe that gas-driven ships will be a necessary intermediate stage so that the industry can become accustomed to the use of gas," says Simon Eidesvik. Eidesvik is nominated for the Thor Heyerdahl International Environmental Award for this work. . Offshore Links |
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