Remedial Offshore selects GE V228 diesel engines

Remedial Offshore announces the purchase of V228 medium-speed diesel engines from GE Marine, Erie, Pa.

The engines will be used to power the new Remedial Offshore Elevating Support Vessels. As the world's first self-propelled, 100-metre nominal water depth-rated jack-up well intervention vessel, Remedial Offhore's ESV design provides a hybrid between a jack-up drilling rig and a marine vessel. The new ESV concept offers tremendous versatility and operational functionality, ranging from an incorporated electric well work over package to a large open deck for offshore support functions. Each vessel is uniquely outfitted to provide a stable work environment for deploying today's most advanced well intervention or production enhancement technologies. ESV abilities include well workovers, sidetracking, well abandonment, facility upgrades, brownfield rejuvenation projects and small field developments, as well as providing complete services for well intervention. Each ESV will employ four GE diesels, one 8-cylinder V228 and three 16-cylinder engines. Two Remedial Offshore ESVs are under construction in China, one at the Yantai Raffles Shipyard. in Shandong, and the second at the COSCO Shipyard Group's facility in Nantong. GE has already delivered to the shipyards two 8V228 and six 16V228 engines.

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