ICE to Design World’s Largest LPG Carrier

International Contract Engineering (ICE) is one of Europe’s largest independent ship design and marine engineering consultancies. We have been in business more than 40 years and are part of the Isle of Man based ICE Group. We offer a full range of high calibre, cost-effective engineering and design services, either in our own offices or at our clients' sites.

We use a wide range of design and engineering software including PDMS, Tribon, Bentley PlantSpace and AutoPlant, NAPA, AutoCAD, Pipenet , Nastran NX for FEMAP, ABS SafeHull, Mars, VeriSTAR Hull, Poseidon, Prime Ship and Nauticus Hull. We are today engaged with projects in the offshore industry and design of both commercial and naval ships. We can undertake the full design scope from tank testing through class drawings, detail design and production information.

Clients include STX Europe, Aker Solutions, Keppel FELS, Damen, BAE Systems, Saipem, Hyundai, BW Offshore, Fred. Olsen Offshore, BVT Surface Fleet, Moss Maritime, ABG Shipyard, Davie, SBM Offshore, Sea Production, Irving Shipbuilding, Odebrecht and Teekay.

Weir LGE Process, a division of Weir Group PLC in Scotland has awarded ICE a contract for basic design of the hull and cargo tanks for a ship designed for carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). To be built by SSK in Japan, with a capacity of 84,500 cubic meters this will be the world’s largest LPG carrier. Cryogenics expert Weir LGE Process will be supplying the cargo handling system.

PDMS Power Plant DesignAmong Icepronav’s international visitors last week was Mr. Knut Rathjen, System Manager at Scandinavia’s power plant specialist BWSC. He met with Icepronav’s IT special-ists to ensure full PDMS compatibility for design work that Icepronav will be performing for BWSC. Whilst such work during the 2009 familiarisation phase has been done by Icepronav engineers seconded to BWSC’s offices, the two companies have agreed to increasingly locate design work to Icepronav in Romania.

Whilst ICE is primarily a marine and offshore industry design specialist, design of land based facilities is an important segment of its business. To service clients in the non-marine sector ICE in 2008 acquired 50 PDMS licenses.

The contract follows in-depth technical discussions and repeated visits last year by Weir and ICE to the shipowner, the shipyard and potential cargo tank subcontractor facilities in Korea and Japan. Whilst having experience with both LPG and liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship design, this will be ICE’s first design for a Japanese shipyard. The responsibility of ICE includes obtaining ABS Class approval.

The picture shows BWSC representative (second left) along with Vidar Ovrebo, MD of International Contract Engineering AS (first left), Marian Negrau, Project Manager and Cristian Cobzaru, IT Manager of Icepronav (right).

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VLCC to FPSO Conversion Engineering (Cidade de Vitoria FPSO Conversion)Client: Saipem (Italy)Year: 2005-06

Scope of Work: Basic Design and Detail Design Naval architecture Structure Piping and Mechanical Safety and Layouts Electrical (limited) Plan approval (ABS)

Offshore Accommodation Vessel Design Icepronav is pleased to welcome to its Galati, Romania offices Mr Benoît Leclerc, Senior Technical Representative of Davie Yards Inc. of Quebec, Canada. Benoit will act as a Davie’s coordinator for ICE’s contract to provide detail design for two large offshore accommodation and service vessels that Davie will be building for Ocean Hotels.

The accommodation vessel contract follows a simi-lar contract for design assistance for a series of three offshore service vessels under construction at Davie for Norwegian offshore contractor Cecon. The design work is done using Tribon M3 software.

The OPV “Port of Spain” on sea trialsThe picture shows the new Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard’s vessel “Port of Spain” leaving Portsmouth, England last month for sea trials.

ICE had teams of engineers assisting the builder VT Shipbuilding (now: BAE Systems Surface Ships) with the design of this state-of-the-art ship, working both in Romania and in the UK.

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Pictured here are Benoit Leclerc of Davie Yards Inc. and Angelica Ioan, Project Manager of Icepronav Engineering.

Picture courtesy of Thiago Guimarães/ Secom

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