Havyard & Fafnir Win Environmental Award

The Havyard Group and Fafnir Offshore were presented with the Environmental Award at the annual Offshore Support Journal Conference in London that took place last week. They won the award for newbuild 126, a Havyard 833 WE ICE platform supply vessel with hybrid battery power that Havyard is building for Fafnir

Pushing the envelope for the environment

Havyard has been acknowledge for devoting extensive resources to research and development in order to produce ship designs that are safe, cost-efficient and environmentally friendly. This has produced results in the form of orders from both the offshore oil industry and the renewable energy industry.

'In order to achieve sustainable development, you have to think about the environment,' says Design Manager Leine. 'This is a focus area both for us and for our customers, and it gives us opportunities in traditional segments such as offshore oil and in new segments such as offshore wind power production. When we can deliver environmentally friendly service vessels for wind power production, we actually achieve double the environmental gain,' Leine says with a smile.

'The offshore oil industry has also focused on the environment for a long time, and this puts pressure on us to continue to develop environmentally friendly solutions. The Havyard 833 WE ICE design that we will deliver to Fafnir is an excellent example of this. When we developed the first WE design, the challenge was to push the envelope in terms of designing a ship that would use even less fuel under actual operating conditions, thereby reducing harmful emissions to the natural environment. We focused on the foreship and stern and arrived at a hull design that resulted in significant savings in fuel consumption in both calm and harsh weather. With build 126, we have taken this yet another step further and, in cooperation with Norwegian Electric Systems, integrated a hybrid battery powered diesel-electric propulsion system.'

'We will not stop there, and we are constantly coming up with new ideas for how we can be at the forefront of the development of new, environmentally friendly solutions in cooperation with our strategic partners. Expertise throughout the value chain is the key, and we look forward to exploiting the possibilities that exist in the different markets,' says the enthusiastic Design Manager Leine.