The second methanol-fueled hybrid service operation vessel (SOV) that Esvagt not too long ago ordered at Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard will, like its sister ship set for supply subsequent 12 months, be constructed to a design developed by Norway’s HAV Design. Both vessels will work out of Ørsted’s U.Ok. East Coast Hub.
For this newest vessel, HAV Design will ship each the ship design and an built-in gear package deal together with propulsion system, engines, propellers and positioning system.
“We are humbled and delighted to be awarded yet another assignment from our long-term customer, who is the leading SOV operator,” says Gisle Vinjevoll Thrane, vp of gross sales at HAV Design, a HAV Group ASA subsidiary. ”Esvagt units extraordinarily excessive requirements for challenge execution, security, environmental options and cost-efficiency of operations. As such, they’re a buyer that makes us a fair higher provider.”
Being constructed to the HAV 833 SOV design, the brand new vessel might be geared up with a methanol-electric propulsion system, together with a battery pack that enables very low to zero-emissions operations. With a size of 93 meters and beam of 19.6 meters large and can accommodate as much as 124 individuals.
“Safety and sustainability are the core of Esvagt’s business strategy, and one of our key priorities is to support decarbonizing offshore activities,” says Kristian Ole Jakobsen, Esvagt’s deputy CEO. “This contains serving to our clients to decarbonize their provide chains. To obtain this, we collaborate with suppliers that match this technique. This is a key cause for selecting the HAV 833 SOV design, which we all know and belief for each its wonderful operational and environmental advantages.
This is the eleventh SOV to be to be developed by Esvagt in cooperation with HAV Design, others embrace the HAV 832 SOV ordered on the Fincantieri Marinette Marine Shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., for the CREST Windjoint enterprise between Crowley and Esvagt.