Written by
Nick Blenkey
Island Constructor. [Photo: Ulstein]
The Island Condor just isn’t the one Island Offshore vessel headed to a shipyard for an improve. Ulstein stories that the Island Constructor, a 120 meter Ulstein SX 121 subsea vessel that it delivered in 2008, will return to Ulstein Verft in January for a spread of labor,
Operated by TechnipFMC subsidiary TIOS AS, the Island Constructor will end a properly service marketing campaign simply after year-end and go to Bergen to take away the properly service gear that has been on board for 14 years. It will likely be changed with next-generation subsea gear, and the vessel will then proceed to Ulstein Verft, the place the brand new gear shall be built-in.
Ulstein Design & Options has already been concerned in reviewing the modifications that have to be made.
“The gear shall be tailored within the hangar, on the deck, within the tower and the ship usually”, says Trond-Eivind Larsen, who’s the topside group chief at TIOS.
Ulstein says that that is one a number of new service and aftermarket contracts not too long ago booked by Ulstein Verft and that numerous different work on Island Constructor will even be carried out for Island Offshore, together with putting in a ballast water remedy system (BWTS) and overhauling the engines.
