Rolls Royce & MAN deliver the World’s largest and most expensive workboat
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Rolls Royce & MAN deliver the World’s largest and most expensive workboat
20 Nov 2014
World's largest workboat launched
Seawork exhibitors, MAN and Rolls Royce have delivered solutions for the world’s largest, most sophisticated and most expensive workboat ever built.
For over 25 years the Swiss company, Allseas, had been developing the ‘Pieter Schelte’. Designed as a vessel to install and remove offshore oil topside structures as single units, its hull is 382 metres long, its beam 124 metres, with the length increasing to 477 metres when tilting lift beam and the pipe-laying stinger are in operation, and also a gap at the bow that is 59 metres long and 122 metres long, devised to ease operations. The vessel can handle topside lifts of 48,000 tonnes and a jacket lift of 25,000 tonnes.
The propulsive power is transferred through 12 Rolls-Royce azimuth thrusters which give a maximum speed of 14 knots and which are also used for the fully redundant Kongsberg DP3 dynamic positioning system. The vessel is equipped with 8 MAN diesel generators providing a total installed power of 95,000 kW. Accommodation is provided for 571 people in the offset central superstructure.
This recently launched vessel is the most sophisticated and the largest workboat ever built and is undoubtedly the most expencosting around €2.4billion. Last November, Allseas announced it was devising a second vessel of this type which will be even larger, due to be launched in 2020.
Find out more about this vessel at Maritime Journal, and meet MAN and Rolls Royce at Seawork on stands A23 and A89 respectively. - See more at: http://www.seawork.com/news101/rolls-royce-and-man-deliver-the-worlds-largest-and-most-expensive-workboat#sthash.Wq9IMMSO.dpuf