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New Staff and New Innovations See Page 2 Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter February 2012 Arctic PassionNews 1 / 2012 New staff and new innovations see page 2 First oblique icebreaker under construction page 3 Canada builds polar icebreaker page 5 Improving ice-class tankers Tanker development in recent years on page 6 New tools for ice monitoring Page 12 Knowledge transfer at AARC Arctic Horizons project on page 16 Arctic Passion News February 2012 The Polar Code is needed urgently The IACS members have been working Last summer 41 vessels passed through for practically two decades in developing the Northeast Passage (Northern Sea “harmonised” rules for vessels trading in Route), carrying a total of 834.931 tons polar waters. The topic of safe navigation of commercial cargo under seven in those waters was finally considered to various flags. The Russian authorities' be of such importance that the issue was minimum requirement for these voyages raised to IMO for creation of general is a Baltic Ice Class IA, by definition Viljami Karhu in Memoriam guidelines and finally - as a made for passage in a channel made in After a sunny September weekend we consequence of the sinking of MS 0.8 metre thick ice. The transit season in returned back to work, to hear the sad Explorer in Antarctica - a mandatory 2011 lasted from late June to the end of news that one of our youngest Polar Code. November. employees, Viljami Karhu, passed away due to a long lasting serious illness on The preparation of the mandatory Polar On April 14th at 23:40 a hundred years 15.09.2011. Viljami had been working in Code was started at IMO in 2010. will have passed since Capt Edward J Aker Arctic since spring 2009. He worked Between February 13th to 17th, 2012, Smith directedSS Titanic to the fatal besides his studies assisting in ice model the IMO DE 56 meeting made some collision with an iceberg off testing. We remember him as a hard progress, but unified understanding was Newfoundland. Have we learnt anything? working person with a great sense of only achieved on a few details and the Every year we see hundreds of large humour. existing correspondence group will need non-ice class cruise ships calling in We will all be missing him. to continue with further preparatory work. various icy fjords in Alaska, Greenland As a result of the situation the target date and Antarctica. Announcements for the Code was postponed for two Aker Arctic is undertaking serious work in more years. developing and making sustainable, safe The fundamental difference between the and economic operations possible in Kari Laukia so far leading Baltic ice class regime and polar waters. The shipping community, Design Manager. the planned new Polar Code unfortunately, is still lacking proper Kari transfers to us requirements is that a future vessel's ice guidelines for safe access to these from Kone Marine class will not automatically guarantee areas, thus endangering innocent people Elevators and has a vessel performance, but only the basic and risking to make the work of strong background hull and propulsion integrity and safety. responsible developers and industry null in Arctic shipbuilding, The intended performance level and its and void in the case of a serious earlier designing implications on the class to be selected accident in the near future. propulsion systems will become the responsibility of the The Arctic Council has already reached a for ice going vessels and later by deve- Owner. This approach will better allow loping propulsion units e.g. the Azipod. treaty on joint search and rescue in the the Owner to make a realistic risk Arctic waters. What we urgently need is Annu Oikkonen assessment and to optimise new vessel a well prepared and enforced Mandatory Ice Physicist. Annu concept designs to meet his actual Polar Code! graduated from needs. However for this approach the University of Owner should be capable of defining his Helsinki 2008 with intended operation areas and seasons geophysics as her and fully understand the risks of main subject. navigating in such icy waters. Mikko Niini Before joining AARC she was working on her PhD in the department of physics with special interest in Arctic sea ice. Karl Hamberg Karl Hamberg has chosen to work part- time and has given room for Kari Laukia as Design Manager while continuing with AARC as Senior Adviser, Ship Design and IPR. Source: An Bord magazine Topi Leiviskä Front cover AARC has continued Aker Arctic Technology Inc’s newsletter Publisher: Manager of Re- developing the Icebreaking Trimaran Aker Arctic TechnologyInc search and Testing concept.Model tests have shown the Merenkulkijank at u 6 00980Helsinki, Finland Services. Topi has potential of the Trimaran concept also Tel. +358 10 670 2000 been working at for arctic waters.Annu Oikkonen and Fax +358 10 670 2527 [email protected] AARC since 2008 as Kari Laukia acquainting themselves with www.akerarctic.fi a Senior Research the newest model. See also page 17. Editor in chief: Mikko Niini Texts by: CS Communicat ions O y Engineer. Lay-out: Kari Selonen Printed in February 2012 by DMP 2 Arctic Passion News February 2012 Breakthrough for oblique icebreaker concept The first unit of the Aker Arctic company and co-owner of Arctech. The outfitting and finalizing of the vessel will developed Oblique Icebreaker be done by Arctech in Helsinki. concept has been ordered by the Russian Government from Completely new technology Arctech Helsinki Shipyard. This new and unique multipurpose emergency and rescue icebreaker Oil spill combat represents a completely new type of Aker Arctic and its predecessors have icebreaking and oil spill combat worked intensively in development of a technology. The vessel features a revolutionary new icebreaker concept patented oblique design with an sets run by STX diesels have a total that despite its small size can create a asymmetric hull and three Steerprop wide channel and provide a solution for output of 9 MW. The total propulsion oil spill combat in harsh environmental pulling azimuthing propulsors, which power is about 7 MW. conditions. Last fall Arctech Helsinki allow the vessel to operate efficiently Shipyard was awarded a contract to ahead, astern and obliquely (sideways). “Oil combat in ice conditions is one of the build the first multipurpose emergency The vessel can proceed in typical Baltic major challenges for the international oil and rescue vessel for the Russian Sea ice conditions in continuous mode in industry. After many years of Ministry of Transport based on this ARC 1.0 meter thick level ice both ahead and development work the oblique icebreaker concept represents a breakthrough 100 concept. Arctech was awarded the astern and in oblique mode she will be contract together with Yantar JSC. The approach for the solution,” says Mikko able to generate a 50 meter wide Niini, Managing Director of Aker Arctic. value of the contract is about EUR 76 channel in 0.6 meter level ice. million. “We are now developing the concept The vessel will be used in icebreaking further and introducing the improved The project was kicked off immediately operations and emergency towing of ARC 100 concept in March at the and the vessel will be delivered in vessels and floating facilities. It features London workshop of International December 2013. The hull of the vessel a very advanced oil recovery system Association of Oil and Gas Producers, will be built in Kaliningrad by Yantar suitable for operation even in heavy which is planning to establish a multi- shipyard, which is one of the yards waves. The vessel measures 76,4 million dollars development program for belonging to United Shipbuilding meters in length and 20,5 meters in mechanical spill recovery in ice Corporation, a Russian state-owned breadth. The three main diesel generator conditions.” 3 Arctic Passion News February 2012 Towards Arctic LNG One of Aker Arctic's main ongoing works recently has been for OAO YamalLNG,a joint venture between Novatek and the French Total S.A. (20%), which has engaged AARC in the planning of LNG production and transports from their very rich Tambey gas field on the eastern coast of the Yamal Peninsula in the village of Sabetta. In the first phase Yamal LNG hired CB&I Lummus to conduct a Pre-FEED with the aim of studying the overall viability of the idea and the alternative options available. In spring 2010 AARC was hired to support CB&I by studying the various shipping alternatives, ship types, capabilities of the upgraded 170.000 m³ forthcoming shipbuilding and ship ship sizes and possible locations of the vessel concept, powered by the newly operation international tenders. Tendering export terminal. Also some new and developed Aker Arctic Hybrid DAS™ phase will take place later in 2012. updated environmental information, propulsion solution with one large centre especially on the ice conditions, had to propeller and twin azimuthing pulling be collected to be certain of the design thrusters. This will give the vessels a basis requirements. These were performance securing independent gathered by AARI of St. Petersburg with operation with a minimum 5 knots AARC's participation during winters 2010 scheduled speed. and 2011. AARC now continues with adaptation of Development of LNG LNG driven machinery for ice operation together with Wärtsilä and ABB, creating carriers practices and equipment for the ice In the FEED AARC has been working management in the terminal area, directly with Yamal LNG in further performing the conceptual development development and optimisation of the of the LNG fuelled channel management The Aker Arctic Hybrid DAS™ hybrid LNG carriers for the challenging Arctic and terminal icebreakers and assisting propulsion performed well also in shallow route from Sabetta in the Ob Bay over Yamal LNG in preparations for the water brash ice.
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