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Keppel Verolme lands a double



By Upstream staff 

Rotterdam-based Keppel Verolme, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine, has won two contracts totalling S$160 million (US$109.4 million) on the back of an upsurge of offshore activities in the North Sea.

Keppel said it had secured a repeat order for the outfitting of the floating production, storage and offloading facility Sevan Voyageur for Norway’s Sevan Production.

Work is expected to be completed in the summer of 2008.

This is the third cylindrical FPSO facility that Keppel Verolme is carrying for the same owner.

The world’s first cylindrical FPSO facility, Sevan Piranema, was completed in Keppel Verolme in January 2007.

The second unit, Sevan Hummingbird, also completed by Keppel Verolme, was delivered recently.

Keppel said it had also won a contract for the drydocking of the Saipem 7000, a semi-submersible crane and pipelaying DP vessel for Italy’s Saipem..

Saipem 7000 is the world’s second largest crane vessel with lifting capabilities of up to 14,000 tonnes.

On 11 December, the Saipem 7000 was successfully drydocked in Keppel Verolme’s mammoth dock for its first time in her 20-years lifespan.

Keppel Verolme will renew the hull coating system and carry out maintenance works to the underwater equipment, such as the thrusters, overboard valves, quick ballasting system and the impressed current system.

Work is expected to be delivered in first quarter 2008.


Tuesday, 18 December, 2007, 02:15 GMT  | last updated: Tuesday, 18 December, 2007, 11:48 GMT

Sevan job: keppel has landed a repeat order for a cylindrical FPSO similar to the Sevan Piranema (above)
 

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