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OCEAN RIG APOLLO - IMO 9676981

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Photographer:
Rick Vince [ View profile ]
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Apr 9, 2016
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Apr 9, 2016
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09/04/2016, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

In temporary lay-up here, after Total Oil terminated a drilling contract offshore the Congo 28 months early, in February this year.
In about a month, this vessel will be towed to Greece for long-term lay-up.
Due to the current downturn in oil prices, the owner of this drill-ship, 'ORIG' (Greek owned), has found itself in a difficult position with two other vessels, including the vessel alongside 'Ocean Rig Olympia', also having contracts terminated, & three recently delivered vessels to pay for.....

Built in 2015 by Samsung, Koje, South Korea (2063).
60,975 g.t. & 59,964 dwt., as 'Ocean Rig Apollo'.

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OCEAN RIG APOLLO
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Marshall Islands

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Malim: Being a drillship, she is not designed to spend a long time at an anchorage. Most probably like you said, she has got an exemption. Especially as you pointed out, she is registered in the Marshall Islands and classed with ABS. The idea of an anchor aft, is not likely.

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DP is not a failsafe propulsion, even DP3, and that's the entire point of having two anchors.
If she's only got one then she'll have an exemption from class and/or flag, that is unless there's something else down aft, perhaps on a wire rather than a chain.
Being Marshall Islands flag and classed with ABS probably says all that needs to be said.

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Malim Sahib. Surely, if it was a classification requirement, then they would have two anchors. The owners, builders and designers are not going to fit just one in the hope they won't notice. Anyway, drillships such as these, are only going to go into a limited amount of ports anyway. If they do, they will generally be going alonside. They also have a two means of holding station. The anchor being one of them. While the primary means of holding position is dynamic positioning. As such, they have in my opinion, two mooring systems. Which is what two anchors are.

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The choice of how many anchors is not normally up to the whims of the owners, it's a Classification Society requirement.
I can think of more than a few ports which would not be happy with a vessel entering which has only one working anchor.

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I suspect the reason they have only got one anchor, is because the owners and designers did not anticipate the vessels sitting at an anchorage for any length of time. So maybe they did not think two anchors were necessary. As most of the time, the vessel would be in deep water using Dynamic positioning to remain on location. I dare say, future drillships will be designed somewhat differently.

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Thanks again for your info Vlad; I feel that in light of the current state of oil exploration, future drill-ships might be ordered with 4 anchors; 2 for'ard & 2 aft ;-)
Regards, Rick

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According to the info I got, these vessels do rely on DP all the time, which makes them very expensive to operate in case they are not doing their "proper" job (about 50k $ per day just to "stick around" with skeleton crew)...

Cheers

Vlad

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Thanks Vlad, likewise.
Denis, I don't know why they only have a single anchor for'ard, I will ask around. Maybe they rely on DP all the time!
Regards, Rick

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Only one anchor for a ship of such size?

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Good catch, and good info, Rick.
I guess owners of drill ships everywhere are facing similar problems...

Cheers

Vlad

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