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- 2009-12-27
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来福士为Saipem建造的铺管船将面临转厂
据消息人士透露,中集为Saipem建造的铺管船将在不久从来福士转场到新加坡吉宝船厂完成余下的建造、调试工作;这是继半潜式D90平台之后,第二个转厂的海工产品。对刚刚有点起色的中集海工来说,的确不是什么好消息。
原文如下:
Sources said Singapore’s Keppel Fels is the frontrunner in the race for the job, ahead of Singapore’s Sembawang and Dubai Drydocks, cashing in on a similar deal it earlier concluded with Saipem.
They said Saipem would get a good package for the deal should it award the contract to Keppel Fels, factoring in its ongoing completion and commissioning contract on the semi-submersible drilling rig Scarabeo 9 for Saipem.
The race started after CIMC Raffles reached an agreement with Saipem to move the vessel to another yard for completion and commissioning. “According to the agreement, it is considered as early delivery,” said a source close to the talks between Saipem and CIMC Raffles.
Sources said the unit will likely leave CIMC Raffles’ yard in Yantai soon, with one source telling Upstream that it could be towed away after the Chinese New Year in February.
However, Saipem and CIMC Raffles have yet to sort out some paperwork and customs clearance for when the vessel will leave Chinese waters, said another source.
The unit is thought likely to be ready for delivery this year, but sources said Saipem feels that moving it to Singapore will ensure better schedule certainty. Saipem awarded the then-Yantai Raffles Shipyard the contract to design and build the DP3 class pipelay vessel in 2007.
The vessel has been modified a few times, increasing the length and accommodation capacity, and is equipped to support deep-water developments worldwide, including the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea, South Atlantic, off West Africa, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
The new vessel will be equipped with a 600-tonne mast crane and two 55-tonne pipe handling gantry cranes. It will be the second unit Saipem has moved from CIMC Raffles for completion in another yard.
In September, it towed the semi-submersible drilling rig Scarabeo 9 from CIMC Raffles to Keppel Fels for completion at an additional cost of between $70 million and $100 million.
The rig, which is expected to arrive in Cuba in late June or early July, is capable of working in water depths in up to 3600 metres. It was originally due for delivery in September 2009.
A Repsol-led consortium that includes Norway’s Statoil and ONGC Videsh of India has contracted the rig first and will drill one or two exploration wells off north-west Cuba, before passing it on to other companies.
•• Saipem revealed this week that its newbuild semisub Scarabeo 8, destined for a long-term development drilling contract on Eni’s Goliat field off northern Norway, faces delays of another six months. The contract was initially due to start in 2009 but is now not expected to begin until the fourth quarter. |
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