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Yantai Raffles Shipyard awarded 35 Mio Euro Contract for Offshore Drilling Platform to Siemens Consortium
Beijing
2006-07-07
The Chinese Yantai Raffles Shipyard, Yantai/Shandong has awarded a new contract to a consortium led by the Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) for a new semi-submersible drilling platform. Yantai Raffles builds the platform, designed for deepwater drilling, for Offshore Rig Services, based in Stavanger/Norway. The order is worth about 35 million Euro. Consortium members include Siemens A.S of Norway, Wärtsila Finland OY and Kongsberg Maritime A.S of Norway.
The Siemens Consortium scope of supply includes diesel engine generator
sets, propulsion, power distribution, transformers, drives and motors,
an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), a dynamic three-dimensional
positioning system (DP 3), an integrated control and safety system, the
telecom system and auxiliary systems.
Project management and system engineering will be organized by Siemens
Norway with manufacturing taking place in Norway, Finland, the
Netherlands, China and various other locations in Europe and Asia. The
contract reflects a long term partnership between Yantai Raffles and
Siemens in the execution of complex offshore industry projects,
including but not limited to Semi-Submersibles and Floating Production
Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels.
Further information under:
 www.siemens.com/oil-gas
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The SSP-300, an Offshore Floating Production Storage and Offloading FPSO
Vessel built by Yantai Raffles Shipyard in Shandong/China with Siemens
Technology
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is the
integrator of systems and solutions for industrial and infrastructure
facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects
business covering planning, installation, operation and the entire life
cycle. I&S uses its own products and systems and process technologies in
order to enhance productivity and improve competitiveness of companies
in the sectors of metallurgy, water treatment, pulp and paper, oil and
gas, marine engineering, open-cast mining, airport logistics, postal
automation, intelligent traffic systems and industrial services. In
fiscal 2005 (to September 30) I&S employed a total of 31,700 people
worldwide and achieved total sales of EUR 5.390 billion.
Further information and downloads under:
www.industry.siemens.com
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Wieland Simon
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