North Sea Shuttle Tanker Navion Hispania

Revised: November 5, 2003 (completed)
   November 3, 2003 (populated webpage)
   (Original posting: November 2, 2003)

    

Aframax shuttle tanker, built by IZAR

    

Approaching the Statfjord and Gullfaks Fields

Approaching the Statfjord and Gullfaks Fields

    

The following series of photos shows the approach, and connection to one of the Statfjord SPMs
Rescue/support vessel has taken the hawser-hose

    

OSV - rescue boat retrieving messenger lines

    

Messenger line are on the fos'cle of the OSV -- ready to shot the line

    

Disconnect just coming out of the water

    

Inside the BLS

Makeing the connect: transfer hose, using hydraulics, etc.

    

Navigating Bridge and Cargo Loading Equipment

Signals not all showing green The 10 signals are all showing green -- ready to pump

GreenLine: not all green (on left); all green on right -- ready to pump

DP display showing guard zones around the SPM

DP display - note the guard zones around the SPM

    

Looking to starboard from the port bridge wing   Looking to starboard

    

Starboard bridge-wing   Looking to Starboard

    

Navigation: center console (engine controls) and ECDIS and radars

    

Navigation station: ECDIS and auto-pilot controls

    

    

Evening approaches; moored shuttle tanker takes on crude from Statfjord SPM

    

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