Singapore’s Ultra Deep Solutions (UDS) has announced its fourth long-term charter, sealing five-year deal to charter multipurpose diving support and construction vessel ‘Andy Warhol’
The 103.5-meter vessel, of MT6023 design, is the fourth in the UDS fleet to hit the water. Earlier this month the vessel was sent down the slipway at China’s Qingdao Belhai Shipbuilding yard and is scheduled for delivery in Q3 2018.
UDS’ CEO, Shel Hutton said, “We at UDS have passionately built this vessel from the start for the Middle-East and Asian regions. If fits nicely into the market as a very high specification ship.”
The market has really heated up for the higher end DSCV vessels as of late. Our competitive pricing and low cost fuel consumption ships are having multiple offers on them. Oil and gas companies are looking for high quality assets at competitive prices, he added.
The Andy Warhol will be equipped with an 18-men diving system for operations down to 300 meters water depth. The vessel comes with two heave compensated subsea cranes, one 150 ton offshore crane with a single fall up to 3,000 meters water depth, and one 20 ton offshore crane.
It will be fitted with a two work-class ROVs. The vessel will be capable of accommodating up to 120 personnel.
