SEATECH DESIGN FOR WORLD'S FIRST SEABED MINING VESSEL

摘要

Speaking at the Asian Offshore Support Journal Subsea Conference in Singapore earlier this year, Govinder Singh Chopra from SeaTech Solutions International (S) Pte Ltd described the design of the seabed mining vessel it is designing for Marine Assets Corporation (MAC), who will operate the vessel on behalf of Nautilus Minerals on the Solwara 1 seabed mining project. Nautilus Minerals, a Toronto-based company, plans to mine copper and gold from the Solwara 1 project using the vessel it charters from MAC as a floating base for its operations in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea. MAC, a Dubai-based marine solutions company that specialises in the delivery of newbuild support vessels for the offshore industry, will own and provide marine management of the vessel, which will be chartered to Nautilus for a minimum period of five years with options to either extend the charter or purchase the vessel at the end of the five-year period. Under the terms of the arrangement, MAC has entered into a contract with Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding Ltd in Fujian province in southeast China, to construct the vessel. SeaTech Solutions is providing the basic design for the 227m × 40m, 30-megawatt diesel-electric vessel.