AKER WAYFARER

Subsea Equipment Support Vessel (SESV)

Aker Wayfarer is a Subsea Equipment Support Vessel (SESV) operating for OPetrobras off the coast of Brazil. The unit is specially designed and equipped for deepwater subsea equipment installation, intervention or recovery, and represents a first class fiels construction platform for deep and ultra-deep waters.

Delivered in October 2010, she is a sister ship of Skandi Aker, the largest monohull subsea well intervention vessel ever built. The Skandi Aker was the first intervention vessels to be classed with IMO MODU (mobile offshore drilling unit) code, allowing them to carry oil onboard. The Aker Wayfarer is also prepared for the IMO MODU notation.

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The unit's main features are:
• Subsea installation
• Flexible flow and control lines installations
• Manifolds
• Wind turbines
• Risers
• Mid-water arches
• Floater installations
• Topside floatovers
• Removal operations etc.
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• Large, clean deck optimized for heavy equipment over-boarding

• Excellent sea-keeping performance

• High transit speed for worldwide operations

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Key data

Dimensions

156.9 m x 27.0 m

Deadweight

11,406T

P.O.B. (Single and Double Cabins)

140 2 Offshore Cranes (Rated to 2,700m water depth)

400t AHC Main Crane & 50t AHC Crane

Cargo deck area

2,210 m2

Free deck area

1,850 m2 (excl. cranes)

Deck load

10 mt/m2

Free deck width / length

24.4 m / 65.0 m

2-off heavy duty work class ROV’s

1 centre moonpool and 2 sliding side ports with LARS

Helideck

Sikorsky S-92 @ D-value 1.05 (21m, 8.2mt)

Moonpool

7.2 m x 7.2 m (currently welded shut)

Class

DNV; DP-3

AKOFS SEAFARER

Well Intervention Unit in compliance with the IMO-MODU code.

AKOFS SANTOS

State-of-the-art Subsea Equipment Support Vessels (SESV).