Histria Topaz

Career
Name: Histria Topaz
Owner: Histria Shipmanagement
Port of registry: Constanţa,  Romania
Ordered: 1985
Builder: Constanța Shipyard
Yard number: 357
Launched: 1987
Completed: 1987
In service: 1987
General characteristics
Class and type:Oil tanker
Tonnage:39,750 tons
Length:188.95 m (619.9 ft)
Beam:28 m (92 ft)
Draft:12.041 m (39.50 ft)
Depth:16.8 m (55 ft)
Installed power:12,360 kilowatts (16,580 hp)
Speed:15 knots (17 mph)
Capacity:44,884 m3
Crew:Romanian

Histria Topaz is a floating storage and offloading unit (FPSO) owned by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Majuro, Marshall Islands.[1][2]

History

Histria Topaz was built by the Galati Shipyard in 1987 as a 39,750 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 Topaz is equipped with a double hull, one two-stroke acting diesel engine MAN B&W 6S50MC-C with a capacity of 9,480 kilowatts (12,710 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 960 kilowatts (1,290 hp) each.[2] The ship has 14 hydraulically driven centrifugal deepwell Framo cargo pumps, 10 pumps with a capacity of 500 m3/hour, two pumps with a capacity of 200 m3/hour, one pump with a capacity of 100 m3/hour and one portable pump with a capacity of 150 m3/hour.[2]

The ship is equipped with five manifolds, a discharge capacity of 3,000 m3/hour, a cargo handling capacity of 3,750 m3/hour, one Liebherr hose-handling crane with a reach of 22 metres (72 ft), an Alfa Lawal JWSP-26-C100 freshwater conversion plant with a capacity of 30 m3/day and a Jowa Bio STP3 sewage-treatment plant capable of sustaining 34 people.[2] The ship has ten cargo tanks, two tanks with a capacity of 3,550 m3, four tanks with a capacity of 4,900 m3, four tanks with a capacity of 5,100 m3 and two slop tanks with a capacity of 1,000 m3.[2]

References

  1. "Histria Topaz 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 "2.430 nave maritime, fluviale şi portuare arborează pavilionul românesc" (in Romanian). Cuget Liber. 2007. Retrieved 2009-02-09.