Ultra Deep Solutions has signed a letter of intent to build a SALT 310 Well Intervention vessel at China Merchant in Shenzhen.
The vessel will be capable of Well Intervention, Flex Lay and Rigid Pipe lay in 3000-meter water depths. The 3-in 1-Tower designed by Huisman is the first of it’s kind ever to be built, UDS said
The crane is Huisman built 600t to 1000 t which can work in depths of 3000 meters.
A 650 msw Hydrogen Saturation system will be installed on the vessel.
To complement the ship there will be 2 WROVs 250 HP built into hangars. The vessel comes with 2 Hydrogen refineries built into the design.
UDS CEO Shel Hutton said : “I would like to thank all of you who were involved to make this deal come together. CMHI, SALT and Huisman for their ongoing creativity for design. Also I would like to thank FTE, JFD, Fathom Systems and DNV-GL for their hard-work to get us this far with Hydrogen. We will continue to go forward with Technology and Hybrid ships now. Our goals continue to remain the same bring our end clients low cost, fuel efficient and High technology products.”
UDS, founded in 2014, has been active in the past weeks. It has recently secured a 5-year deal for its Van Gogh diving support construction vessel, and has also shared plans to build its first DSCV Energy Surplus Hybrid Diving vessel.
Offshore Energy Today Staff