Spotlight: Kongsberg Maritime on the Move!

• KONGSBERG MARITIME TO SUPPLY TRAINING SIMULATOR AND GAS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR FUJIAN LNG TERMINAL

Kongsberg Maritime's process simulation group (including former Fantoft Process Technologies) and Taike Engineering Beijing Co. Ltd (part of Essca
Group) have been contracted to supply the Operator Training Simulator and Gas Management System (PMS) for the Fujian LNG project, located in China.

The delivery to China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) includes an operator training simulator, pipeline leak detection system and gas management system. An integrated team with engineers from Kongsberg and Taike Engineering Beijing Co. Ltd will execute the project. Taike is Kongsberg Maritime's cooperation partner in China for process simulation.

Knut Erik Spilling, Kongsberg Maritime's Sales & Marketing Manager for process simulation comments: "Winning this contract demonstrates our strength in providing state-of-the-art simulation technology for operator training and online monitoring systems for LNG terminals and gas transportation pipelines".

ABB is the selected supplier of automation systems to both the LNG terminal and gas pipeline network. A joint venture comprising CB&I and Chengda Engineering Corporation, and other strategic local partners on the project has been selected as the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) vendor. The owner and operator of the terminal is CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Company).

• About the Fujian LNG Project:

The Fujian LNG project is composed of terminal and trunkline projects, three gas-fired power plant projects and 5 city distribution projects.

The terminal site is located at Xiuyu, Putian, to the north of Meizhou Bay. The designed capacity for Phase I is 2.6 mtpa (million tons per annum), with 2 LNG tanks each with a capacity of 145000 m3. A berth that can accommodate 80000-165000 m3 LNG tankers will be built inside the terminal.

The length of the pipeline, including artery, is 369 Km. The first phase is planned for completion in October 2007 and will start commercial operation on December 31st. By then it will supply gas to the Putian Power Plant, Xiamen East Power Plant, Jinjiang Power Plant, and Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Zhangzhou gas distribution companies.

The design capacity for Phase II is 5 mtpa and will come on stream in 2010. It will supply gas to the second phase of Putian Power Plant, Xiamen East Power Plant, Quanzhou Power Plant and Fuzhou Huaneng Power Plant. Tangguh gas field in Indonesia is selected as the supplier for the Phase I project.

It is estimated that the overall project will cost more than 20 billion RMB, with the terminal and trunkline costing more than 5.5 billion RMB. The implementation of Fujian LNG project will substantially relieve energy shortage in Fujian and push the growth of local distribution companies. It will contribute to the improvement of environmental qualities and the sustained social and economic development of the area.

• KONGSBERG NORCONTROL IT TO SUPPLY ØRESUND SOUND VTS

Leading VTS and AIS specialist, Kongsberg Norcontrol IT has won the contract to supply the Vessel Traffic Service scheme for the Øresund Sound area, where the Øresund Bridge links Denmark and Sweden. The Swedish Maritime Administration and the Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography (RDANH) awarded Kongsberg Norcontrol IT the project amid strong competition.

The VTS will form the core of a monitoring and information centre for the ship traffic in the Øresund Sound. The control centre will be in Malmö Sweden, where Kongsberg Norcontrol IT will integrate three operator stations running the advanced VTMIS 5060 solution and five works stations for pilot dispatching. Four Radars are required, with two to be installed on the Swedish side and two on the Danish side of the Sound.

"This is a high profile, high traffic domain where reliable and accurate VTS is required to ensure safety of all vessels in the area, and the Øresund Bridge itself," says Reidar Olsen, Key Account Manager, Kongsberg Norcontrol IT.

Kongsberg Norcontrol IT already supplies the Swedish East and West coast VTS schemes, which both use the VTMIS 5060, a market leading Vessel Traffic Management and Information Service solution, which has been installed at VTS sites throughout the world. It provides a scaleable, highly stable architecture for creating advanced VTS systems. The Øresund system will integrate AIS data from both the Swedish and Danish AIS networks.

The Øresund Sound VTS, which will be known as the Sound VTS, will be operational mid-June 2007.

• KONGSBERG MARITIME INSTALLS ECHOSOUNDERS ON ARGENTINE NAVY SURVEY SHIPS

Kongsberg Maritime has recently completed the installation and commissioning of the bathymetric systems onboard the 'ARA Comodoro Rivadavia', and the 'ARA Puerto Deseado', two Argentine Navy owned and operated Hydrographic vessels.

The upgrades were sponsored by the UNDP (United Nations Development
Programs): The first through the Environmental Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and the second through COPLA (Argentine Commission to determine the Continental Platform Limits), of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The system installed on the ARA Comodoro Rivadavia is intended for shallow waters, and will be used for research and chart production of coastal waters and internal rivers. It consists of a two head EM 3000 multibeam, operating at 300Khz with a transducer hoisting system, an EA400 single beam operating at 38 and 200Khz, and an EA400P on the same frequencies. The system, which also benefits from having a Kongsberg Seatex MRU and DGPS positioning unit, was first used on South America`s southern channel, the Beagle channel, with great success.

The ARA Puerto Deseado is equipped with two redundant Kongsberg Maritime single beam EA600s, each with two frequencies: 200Khz for shallow waters and 12 Khz for depths down to 11000metres. The ship is now specified to fulfill COPLA´s needs.

The installation of the bathymetric equipment onboard ARA Puerto Deseado was particularly challenging. An initial installation period of 18 weeks was slashed to just 8 weeks due to the vessel being required to sail to the Antarctic during a good weather window. The vessel has a very important bulb bow and a thruster tube in front of the transducers location, making installation more complex than normal and COPLA requires a far more stringent checklist, covering third party sensors, than that usually encountered by Kongsberg Maritime's installation team.

"Despite several unique challenges, the systems were installed and ready to go in time. After leaving the shipyard, all trials showed the high quality of the systems. The first surprise was getting marks up to 700 metres with 200Kz operation, in not too cold waters and with not very hard bottom. The other surprise was the lack of noise in the picture up to 6000 metres, especially with the difficult conditions found in the hull," comments Torbjorn Kjaer, head of single beam maintenance department at Kongsberg Maritime.

For further information, please contact:

Lisbeth Ramde
Kongsberg Maritime
Tel: (+47) 3302 3837
[email protected]
http://www.kongsberg.com