Histria Diamond

Career
Name: Histria Diamond
Owner: Histria Shipmanagement
Port of registry: Valletta,  Malta
Ordered: 1987
Builder: Constanța Shipyard
Yard number: 411
Launched: 1989
Completed: 1989
In service: 1989
General characteristics
Class and type:Oil tanker
Tonnage:89,077 tons
Length:228.5 m (750 ft)
Beam:43 m (141 ft)
Draft:14 m (46 ft)
Depth:19.75 m (64.8 ft)
Installed power:28,552 kilowatts (38,289 hp)
Speed:15 knots (17 mph)
Capacity:101,803 m3
Crew:Romanian

Histria Diamond is a floating storage and offloading unit (FPSO) owned by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Valletta, Malta.[1][2]

History

Histria Diamond was built by the Constanța Shipyard in 2006 as a 89,077 DWT ship used for the transportation of oil and oil products and chemical products.[2] The ship is chartered by the Italian oil and natural gas company Eni.[2]

Technical description

The Histria Diamond is equipped with a double hull, one two-stroke acting diesel engine MAN B&W 6S50MC-C with a capacity of 20,951 kilowatts (28,096 hp) directly acting on the propeller shaft and a four-bladed fixed propeller built by Wärtsilä Propulsion Netherlands.[2] It also has another three auxiliary MAN B&W 6L23/30H diesel engines with a capacity of 2,534 kilowatts (3,398 hp) each.[2] The ship has 14 hydraulically driven centrifugal deepwell Framo cargo pumps, 10 pumps with a capacity of 1105 m3/hour, two pumps with a capacity of 442 m3/hour, one pump with a capacity of 221 m3/hour and one portable pump with a capacity of 332 m3/hour.[2]

The ship is equipped with five manifolds, a discharge capacity of 6,630 m3/hour, a cargo handling capacity of 8,288 m3/hour, one Liebherr hose-handling crane with a reach of 40 metres (130 ft), an Alfa Lawal JWSP-26-C100 freshwater conversion plant with a capacity of 100 m3/day and a Jowa Bio STP3 sewage-treatment plant capable of sustaining 100 people.[2] The ship has ten cargo tanks, two tanks with a capacity of 7,846 m3, four tanks with a capacity of 10,820 m3, four tanks with a capacity of 11,271 m3 and two slop tanks with a capacity of 2,210 m3.[2]

References

  1. "Histria Diamond ship". Histria Shipmanagement. 2006. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "SNC livrează patru tancuri chimice de 41.000 tdw în acest an" (in Romanian). Cuget Liber. 2007. Retrieved 2009-02-09.