Belgian dredging, engineering and environmental group DEME has ordered two new vessels to serve the offshore energy market. Shipyards La Naval in Spain and Uljanik in Croatia will build the multipurpose vessel Living Stone and the self-propelled jackup Apollo, respectively. Both vessels will be delivered in 2017.
The new jackup vessel Apollo will join DEME company GeoSea’s current fleet of self-propelled jack-ups. Apollo is an installation vessel that will also be deployed by GeoSea’s subsidiary EverSea, which is providing services to the oil and gas industry with particular focus on the installation, maintenance, rejuvenation and decommissioning of platform facilities as much as well intervention and well plug and abandonment activities.
The vessel will be equipped with an 800-tonne leg-encircling crane. The vessel deck provides free area of 2000sq m with a load carrying capacity of 15-tonne/sq m. Apollo will be outfitted with 106.8m-long lattice legs that allow her to operate in water depths of up to 70m. Apollo will have standard accommodation for 90 persons on board upgradable to 150.
The multipurpose vessel Living Stone will join DEME’s fleet of fall-pipe vessels servicing the offshore energy market, which currently includes the Flintstone, Rollingstone and Seahorse. The vessel will be equipped with a fall-pipe system as well as cable/umbilical loading & installation facilities and will have advanced subsea construction capabilities. Living Stone will be able to accommodate 100 persons.
Living Stone has rock installation capabilities and serves transport- and installation projects as well as offshore power cable and umbilical installation for amongst others, interconnectors for the future European supergrid.
Apollo and Living Stone have been designed as green vessels with "dual fuel" main engines, solar panels and wind turbines on board, use of biodegradable grease and oil and heat recuperation, in order to operate them with the lowest possible fuel consumption while also keeping CO2 and NOx & SOx exhaust to the strictest minimum. Both ships will have a Green Passport and a Clean Design notation.