Tomorrow’s solutions for marine operations

TOMORROW’S SOLUTIONS

FOR MARINE OPERATIONS

ULSTEIN is an internationally renowned provider of ship designs, shipbuilding and system solutions for ships. For nearly 100 years it has developed future-oriented products and services for the maritime industry.

Norway’s Ulstein Group is a family-owned company comprising a range of marine enterprises within design and solutions, shipbuilding, power and control, global sales and shipping. It offers ship design packages and solutions for offshore support and heavy offshore vessels. Since 1917, the ULSTEIN brand has been associated with quality and innovation in design and delivery.

ULSTEIN builds a wide range of highlyeffective and sustainably efficient vessels that include offshore support, offshore construction, seismic and research vessels. ULSTEIN possesses unique expertise in engineering, installation, commissioning and upgrading. Strong focus is placed on innovative technological solutions and methods, expertise within project management, effective logistics, and preoutfitting techniques. A collaborative approach and streamlined production processes result in a high level of flexibility and quality.

As well as a broad range of ship designs for demanding operations with an emphasis on offshore support and heavy offshore vessels, Ulstein also develops and manufactures innovative mission and interface equipment for vessels. X-BOW

In its designs Ulstein has always placed major emphasis on enhanced fuel efficiency, reliability and safety. Its unique and environmentally-friendly X-BOW® hull line design offers significantly higher transit speed in adverse weather conditions, as well as enhanced fuel economics. The bow shape ensures soft entry into waves, thus reducing speed loss, pitch and heave accelerations, as well as eliminating slamming and vibration problems associated with conventional bow flare.

Other advantages of X-BOW include negligible occurrences of green water on the bridge deck and better protection of the working deck and deck equipment. The X-BOW® hull line design is patented in Norway, Russia, Singapore, Ukraine, USA and Vietnam. Patent is pending in Brazil, China, Europe (EPA), Hong Kong and India.

Power & Control

Today’s shipyards and shipowners require complex technological solutions. ULSTEIN meets customer demands in the areas of navigation, integrated communication and power & control systems worldwide. The company develops, maintains and manages cutting-edge solutions for electronics and power control for ships.

ULSTEIN’s expertise in developing system solutions for shipyards and ship-owners worldwide has resulted in a wide portfolio of products in the area of power and control. The Power & Control area at ULSTEIN provides product development, production, sales and global service within bridge instrumentation, control and monitoring systems, power packages and integrated communications.

Ship of the year nomination

Subsea 7’s flagship ‘Seven Borealis’, a customised SOC 5000 design designed by ULSTEIN has been nominated for the prestigious Ship of the Year Award organised by the Offshore Support Journal.

The Seven Borealis, a state-of-the-art pipelay/heavy lift vessel, delivered 2012, is designed by Ulstein Sea of Solutions for world-wide operations and is Subsea 7’s strategic enabler suited to meeting the requirements of today’s ultra-deep and deepwater projects in the world’s harshest environments. In November 2012, Subsea

7 announced a record SURF contract from Total E&P Norge AS for the development of the gas field Martin Linge, located 180 km west of Bergen in the North Sea.

New deliveries

The latest deliveries of Ulstein designed ships include the platform supply vessel Bourbon Rainbow, yno DH1004 at Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., delivered on 30 January 2013. Bourbon Rainbow is the fourth and final in a series of platform supply vessels of ULSTEIN’s PX105 designs delivered to Bourbon Offshore Norway from this yard.

The ship has a length of 88.9 metres, a width of 19 metres, deadweight 4,107 tons and a maximum speed of 15.5 knots. The ship is equipped for a permanent capacity of 25.

The vessel’s cargo system ensures safe and efficient loading and discharging. The Multi Application Cargo Solution and product tank configurations give a major increase and flexibility in cargo capacity

In February 2013 the first of a total of twelve platform supply vessels of ULSTEIN’s PX105 design, ‘Sea Falcon’, was also delivered from Zhejiang to Seatankers Group.

ULSTEIN is delivering twelve design and equipment packages to Sinopacific’s Zhejiang yard in Ningbo, China, where all the vessels for Seatankers Group will be constructed. The packages include design, engineering and equipment supplied by ULSTEIN.

“We have previously cooperated with Sinopacific on several occasions, and ‘Sea Falcon’ is number 11 of ULSTEIN designed vessel delivered from Zhejiang in the past few years. The yard has acquired much experience in constructing vessels of our designs. In this project, we have contributed with a local support team at Zhejiang that has been involved in the commissioning and completion of the vessel. Also, a design team at our office in Norway has been supervising the project, says Sales & Marketing Manager in Ulstein Design & Solutions, Lars Ståle Skoge

First in Korea

This February Toisa Ltd. signed a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of a Multipurpose Offshore Construction Vessel (MOCV) designed by ULSTEIN. The vessel is the first with X-BOW® hull line design to be built in Korea, and is a customized version of ULSTEIN’s Deepwater Enabler design.

The DP3 vessel is designed for worldwide operations in the oil and gas sector, ultra deepwater installation and construction, flexible lay, pipelay, cable lay and topside construction support. As such the design has been developed for maximum efficiency and cost effectiveness featuring heavy lift capabilities with Active Heave Compensation, two moonpools, upto 50 t/m2 deck strength and the X-BOW® hull line design from ULSTEIN.

‘What makes this vessel unique is that it is developed for coping with future requirements in mind’, says Bram Lambregts, Marketing and Sales Manager at Ulstein Sea of Solutions. ‘The good and very close cooperation with both Toisa and HHI resulted in a very versatile vessel design.’ n