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Siem Offshore Order Their First LNG Powered PSV
Wärtsilä Corporation (Wärtsilä) says is to provide the power and propulsion system for a newbuild LNG powered Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) owned and operated by Siem Offshore on a charter contract for TOTAL.
It will be the first of Siem’s vessels to be powered by LNG, Wärtsilä said in the press release.
The PSV, which it will also design, will be built at Hellesøy and based on the Wärtsilä Ship Design VS 485 series.
The vessel will use a highly redundant electric power distribution system that Wärtsilä says enables energy-efficiency increases of 2 to 4 percent, and reduced electrical losses leading to greater fuel economy.
The PSV will also be equipped with the Wärtsilä LNGPac LNG storage and handling system.
"The LNG PSV for Siem Offshore is the ninth to be designed by Wärtsilä Ship Design and further strengthens our position as the global leader in supplying integrated solutions for LNG PSVs," commented Riku-Pekka Hägg, Vice President, Wärtsilä Ship Design.
The PSV is scheduled to be operational from 2014 and will serve the Martin Linge oilfield, North-West of Stavanger, Norway.
In October Norway's Island Offshore took delivery of an LNG PSV based on Rolls-Royce's UT 776 CDG design.
