Wärtsilä designs LNG-powered platform supply vessel

摘要

The Finnish marine Solutions provider Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the design and an integrated solution for a newlarge platform supply vessel (PSV). The ship will operate primarily on Liquefied Natural Gas and is owned by Siem Offshore, a Norwegian provider of marine Services to the oil and gas industry. It will be operated under Charter by Norske Shell. The PSV is being built at the Remontowa shipyard in Poland. The contract's scope of supply includes the Wärtsilä VS 4411 LNG PSV initial, ba-sic, and detailed ship design, as well as the complete diesel-electric System with Wärtsilä dual-fuel generating sets, the LNGPac gas storage and handling system, and the complete electrical and automation system, including a four-split Wärtsilä LLC (Low Loss Concept) solution. The latter will help the vessel fulfil the highest possible En- vironmental Regularity Number (ERN) of 99.99.99.99., which represents the ship's capability for maintaining its position and normal operations under certain weather conditions.