Bibby SOV can also service offshore oil and gas sector – OSJ Magazine

Bibby Wavemaster is due to enter service in August 2017

Bibby Marine Services service operation vessel (SOV) Bibby WaveMaster 1 was launched at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania on 24 March. Primarily intended for the offshore wind industry it can also work in the oil and gas market.

When completed, Bibby Marine Services Limited, part of Bibby Line Group, will deploy the vessel to support forthcoming offshore wind construction and O&M projects in the North Sea.

Stephen Blaikie, CEO at Bibby Marine Services Ltd, said: This is an important key milestone in the delivery of the vessel. Sea trials will start soon and we will take delivery in August. We are very impressed with the quality of the build and the whole process has gone smoothly.

Peter Robert, director business development and market intelligence at Damen said: Carrying out the integrated hardware in the loop simulator analyses of the vessel plus dynamic positioning (DP) system plus gangway in a time domain simulation with the actual controllers connected to it, proves, in real life conditions, safe operations in the 2.5m Hs, as required by the tenders. Based on this the shipowner can guarantee site specific vessel performance and safe operations.

Bibby WaveMaster 1 was designed and built specifically for the transfer and accommodation of offshore personnel and aims to maximise working time, technician comfort and safety. With a DYNPOS (AUTR) DP2 system, the 90m vessel has a motion compensated access system for walk-to-work transfers.

Although primarily designed with offshore wind in mind, the vessel is capable of a much wider scope of work in a variety of offshore industries. A range of options are available including an additional deck crane with up to a 24 tonne capacity, tanks arrangements suited to liquids such as glycols and low flashpoint liquids with separate delivery intakes, and facilities for dive support and ROV operations.

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