Norway: Kleven Maritime Bags Construction Contract for New Offshore Service Vessel

Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with Myklebusthaug Offshore, Norway, on the building of a new multipurpose offshore service vessel. The vessel is to be built at Kleven Yard in Ulsteinvik, Norway, and will be the first vessel to incorporate new, advanced technology leading to significantly reduced fuel consumption.

Kleven Maritime now has an order book comprising 11 vessels with a total value of around 4 billion NOK.

“We are delighted to establish a relationship with Myklebusthaug as a new customer, and proud of the fact that Myklebusthaug’s new vessel will be the first to incorporate new, advanced technology,” says Ståle Rasmussen, CEO of Kleven Maritime. ABB’s so-called Onboard DC Grid system introduces a new way of distributing power to main components onboard, leading to significantly reduced fuel consumption.

“We look forward to working with Kleven Maritime, and we are confident that they will handle the building of this innovative vessel in the best possible way,” says Roald Myklebusthaug, Managing Director of Myklebusthaug Offshore.

The Kleven Maritime group has attracted attention going against the flow in Norwegian shipbuilding, by increasingly moving production from abroad back to their two Norwegian shipyards. On this latest project, the most advanced sections of the vessel will be produced on Kleven Maritime’s facilities in Rovde and at Kleven Verft, while the less advanced sections will be produced in Poland.

The vessel is to be delivered in Q1 2013.

Marin Teknikk in Herøy has designed the vessel, a type MT 6015 multipurpose platform supply vessel. This will be the fourth vessel of this design to be built by Kleven Maritime.

The vessel’s dead weight is around 5,000 tons, length 93.8 meters, width 20 m and the deck area is in excess of 1100 m2. The vessel can accommodate 60 persons and will be built under the new SPS code with arrangements that makes the vessel highly suitable for ROV and construction projects. With ice-class DeIce and ICE 1B, the vessel will be well suited for operations in rough and cold areas in the north, and Stand by Class and advanced oil recovery equipment (OIL REC – NOFO) will make it an attractive vessel in the market.

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Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, November 22, 2011; Image: klevenmaritime