Akofs-Seafarer

sold to Clients of Aker Solutions

Estonian shipbuilder BLRT Marketex recently outfitted the Skandi Aker, classed as a deepwater intervention vessel. The project cost about five million euros and grossed 1.5 million euros for other Estonian companies. Developed by Aker Solutions, the ship is specialized and one-of-a-kind, said Rene Arikas of BLRT on ETV. The ship is 157 meters long and with a beam of 27 meters, and can maneuver in any direction. Previously ships that worked on oil wells had an effective depth of 300-400 meters, but the Skandi Aker can work up on sites up to three kilometers below the surface. The ship has two underwater cameras that can be coupled with pincers, two cranes and various oil well maintenance systems, all fully redundant - and it can work in winds of six or seven on the Beaufort scale. The project was so large that BLRT had to work with its competitors over the year-long project to manufacture and install drilling equipment and structural steel on the ship. The Skandi Aker will head to the Norwegian fjords for sea trials next week, then the coast of Africa.

Declared Norway’s Ship of the Year 2010 by Rikke Linde, Minister for Trade & Industry, at the recent SMM trade show in Hamburg last September, DOFCON ASA’s subsea service vessel, Skandi Aker, features a SAM Electronics’ NACOS 35-5 integrated navigation command system supplied by SAM’s associate L-3 Norwegian company, Valmarine. Read more at Sam Electronics, http://www.sam-electronics.de/dateien/news/news.html