Histria Ivory

History
Name: Histria Ivory
Owner: Histria Shipmanagement
Port of registry: Valletta,  Malta
Ordered: 2005
Builder: Constanța Shipyard
Yard number: 571
Launched: 2006
Completed: 2006
In service: 2006
General characteristics
Class & type: Oil tanker
Tonnage: 40,450 tons
Length: 179.93 m (590.3 ft)
Beam: 32.2 m (106 ft)
Draft: 11.1 m (36 ft)
Depth: 16.5 m (54 ft)
Installed power: 12,360 kilowatts (16,580 hp)
Speed: 15 knots (17 mph)
Capacity: 47,803 m3
Crew: Romanian

Histria Ivory is a floating storage and offloading unit (FPSO) owned by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Valletta, Malta.[1][2]

History

Histria Ivory was built by the Constanța Shipyard in 2006 as a 40,450 DWT ship used for the transportation of oil and oil products and chemical products.[2] The ship is chartered by the Italian oil and natural gas company Eni.[2]

Technical description

The Histria Ivory is equipped with a double hull, one two-stroke acting diesel engine MAN B&W 6S50MC-C with a capacity of 9,480 kilowatts (12,710 hp) directly acting on the propeller shaft and a four-bladed fixed propeller built by Wärtsilä Propulsion Netherlands.[2] It also has another three auxiliary MAN B&W 6L23/30H diesel engines with a capacity of 960 kilowatts (1,290 hp) each.[2] The ship has 14 hydraulically driven centrifugal deepwell Framo cargo pumps, 10 pumps with a capacity of 500 m3/hour, two pumps with a capacity of 200 m3/hour, one pump with a capacity of 100 m3/hour and one portable pump with a capacity of 150 m3/hour.[2]

The ship is equipped with five manifolds, a discharge capacity of 3,000 m3/hour, a cargo handling capacity of 3,750 m3/hour, one Liebherr hose-handling crane with a reach of 22 metres (72 ft), an Alfa Lawal JWSP-26-C100 freshwater conversion plant with a capacity of 30 m3/day and a Jowa Bio STP3 sewage-treatment plant capable of sustaining 34 people.[2] The ship has ten cargo tanks, two tanks with a capacity of 3,550 m3, four tanks with a capacity of 4,900 m3, four tanks with a capacity of 5,100 m3 and two slop tanks with a capacity of 1,000 m3.[2]

References

  1. "Histria Ivory ship". Histria Shipmanagement. 2006. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Nava ?Histria Ivory? a primit botezul" (in Romanian). Cuget Liber. 2007. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
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