SENER Develops Multipurpose Subsea Support Vessel
Multipurpose Support Vessel designed by SENER
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Operators are demanding more efficient, less consuming and more capable vessels, while shipbuilders need to achieve it in a very competitive environment. As a ship design firm, SENER says it plays an important role offering value to all stakeholders, with innovative designs taking in consideration operators' and builders' requirements.
SENER is currently developing a new multipurpose subsea support vessel specially designed for subsea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) light construction duties, for worldwide service. The ship will have a overall length of more than 112 meters, a length between perpendiculars longer than 100 meters and a breadth of 22 meters. The depth to main deck will be of 9 meters while the draft will have more than 7 meters. In total, the vessel will be able to accommodate 110 persons on board.
The vessel will incorporate the following capacities: two fixed pitch azimuthal main propellers of diesel electric propulsion, two fixed pitch tunnel thrusters and one fixed pitch retractable azimuthal thruster. It will contain a 40-metric-ton electric deck crane, with option for a larger one (250 metric tons), and will be able to work in 4,000 meters depth. It will have an integrated moonpool of 7.2 by 7.2 meters and a helicopter deck. The main deck will be reinforced for heavy weights. The design has also prepared the ship for an optional 600-ton cable carousel.
Besides having designed several types of vessels along their more than 50 years of dedication to ship design and marine engineering activities, during the last 10 years SENER has been widely involved in tugs and offshore vessels.
The experience and know how in this shipbuilding segment has promoted SENER´s participation in several relevant projects over the world.
SENER has recently developed Stern Drive Tugs (Ona Don Lorenzo for Tras-Ona, Argentina and VB Bravo, VB Campeador and VB Corsario for Boluda, Spain), Voith Tractors (Tommaso Onorato for Moby S.P.A., Italy, Solan and Bonxie for the Shetland Island Council, Scotland and 40, 41, 42 and 43 for the Antwerp Port Authority, Belgium) and Rescue Tugs (María de Maeztu, María Zambrano, María Pita, Marta Mata, SAR Mastelero, SAR Gavia and SAR Mesana for SASEMAR, Spain) and has developed its own design of LNG propulsion tug, in collaboration with Main Engine makers and Bureau Veritas.
The double role of SENER as ship design firm and developer of the FORAN CAD/CAM system gives more value to its clients, leveraging its knowledge in ship design and thus improving its software capabilities, the company said. Taking advantage of this double role, SENER has updated the naval architecture modules of FORAN, the version V70R3.0 is the launching of FBASIC module that will replace the former modules of naval architecture calculations and incorporates new features to make easy the generation of documents, to perform calculations, and can be easily installed on board the vessels to be used as load calculator, with all the information of the vessel already included if the design has been made using FORAN. This functionality is being tested to be used onboard anchor handling tug and supply vessels.
