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Saturday Marino Rosettes will deliver a new unit AHTS to Augusta Offshore
A twin unit will be completed in 2014
September 4, 2012
Next saturday beginning from the hours 11:30 in the Ship yard Rosettes "Saint Vitale" of Ravenna of the Marino Spa Rosettes will hold the ceremony of delivery of the new Anchor Handling Tug Supply Ace Thirty-one to Augusta Offshore Spa of Naples (CA.FI.MA group.). This AHTS, constructed on project Rolls-Royce 712 UT CD, is a specialized ship multipurpose in the positioning of the oil platforms of perforation in the high seabeds, from the 2.000-2.500 meters of depth.
The new ship is long 79,70 meters, wide 19,20, has a height of construction of 8,30 meters, the maximum immersion 6,80 meters and a power of 14 MW (about 19.000 CV, the installed maximum power on this type of ships) distributed from four diesel engines Warstila 6L32 and 8L32. In the course of the tests in sea the maximum speed has been of 17,8 knots and the shooting to fixed point of 220 tons, a value never reached in Italy for a AHTS.
Marino rosettes have explained that the main characteristic of the Ace Thirty-one is the winch, in a position to dynamically pulling 500 tons, with a resistance to the brake of 600 tons and an ability to stowage on the drums of 11.400 meters of cable in steel from 76 millimeters of diameter.
The ship has reached also the which requisitioned maximums normative of the RINA between which the class for the dynamic positioning, comfort on the level of the vibrations and the noise - comparable to those of the ships from diporto - and above all the acknowledgment "Green Star 3" for the respect of the norms on emissions and pollution.
Augusta Offshore is specialized in the servicing to oil platforms in activity of exploration and production. The company, leader of the offshore field in the Mediterranean, work a fleet of 18 dislocate units in North Africa, Brazil, Nigeria and Nord Europe. Recently the society owner of a shipping company has commissioned to the Marino Rosettes another twin unit of the AHTS Ace Thirty-one that will be taken in delivery in 2014.
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