New ORO delivery to Hellesøy Shipyard

For this new building number 152, Hellesøy once again chooses to furnish their ship with a boiler plant from Parat Halvorsen A/S. Part of and included in Parat’s scope of supply this time, will be one combined 1250kW electric steam & hot water boiler. In normal vessel operation the boiler is part of the hot water and heat recovery loop and supplies necessary additional heat to the HVAC, Sanitary and tank heating systems on board. If an oil spill disaster should occur, the boiler will be re-mobilized to run as a steam boiler. The steam is used to maintain viscosity in the recovered crude oil emulsion in the ORO storage tanks, complete accordance with the NOFO requirements.

The vessel is of a new Wärtsilä Ship Design named VS 4411 DF, with dual fuel propulsion, LNG and MDO. With a new diesel/LNG-electric propulsion system, complete equipped for rescue class for 300 persons and fire fighting II class, the ship is build according to the most stringent PSV’s rules and demands of today.

The ship is planned to be delivered to its owner in June 2014.