SEVEN OCEANS

摘要

In a joint effort with Huisman-Itrec from Schiedam, Merwede Shipyard has recently delivered 'Seven Oceans', a 160 m pipe-laying ship. While Merwede Shipyard was responsible for the design and production of the ship systems and the integration of the pipelay spread, Huisman Itrec took on the design and manufacturing of all the pipe-laying systems. The 'Seven Oceans' is a deepwater rigid and flexlay lay vessel intended for the installation of rigid pipes up to a diameter of 16" on the ocean floor in depths up to 3000 m. The ship can deploy two Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV's) which can monitor the pipelaying activities from nearby. Besides pure pipelaying, the ship will be used for subsea construction,rnROV support and survey activities. The vessel will be mainly operated in the deepwater oil fields offshore Brazil and West-Africa.