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PIC OF THE DAY ARCHIVES
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2008 - 101 Photographs
2009 - 124 Photographs
2010 - 118 Photographs
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2012 - 97 Photographs

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FLEET LISTS
EUROPE PAGE 1
Acergy, Active, Acomarit,
Aries Offshore, Arctia, Arktik-
more, Bibby, Boa, Branding,
BUE, Boston Putford, Bourbon Offshore, Deep Sea Supply, DOF, Eide, Eidsurf, Eidesvik, ER Schiffart
EUROPE PAGE 2
Esvagt, Fairmount, Fairplay, Farstad, Femco, Fletcher Shipping, Fratelli d'Amato, Geoconsult, Gulf Offshore, Harmsbergung, Harrisons, Hartmann, Havila
EUROPE PAGE 3
Heerema, Island Offshore, JP Knight, K Line, Lauritzen Offshore, Maersk Supply, Marine Subsea, ITC, Noorhoek, Nordane, Mokster/Eidesvik, Myklebusthaug, North Star, Nomis, O.H.Meling, Olympic Shipping, OOC Offshore, Ostensjo Rederi, Petrobaltic, REM Offshore, Sartor Shipping
EUROPE PAGE 4
Sea Mar Shipping, Sealion, Siem Offshore, Simon Mokster, SMS, Solstad Offshore, TFDS, Telco, Trico, Varada, Viking Supply Ships, Vroon
S. ATLANTIC & CARRIBEAN
Astro Maritima, Bourbon Maritima, CBO, Delba Maritima, Finarge Brasil, Gulf Brasil, GulfMark Trinidad, Norskan, Saveiros Camuyrano, Sea Trucks Group
INDIA
Garware, Greatship India, Great Offshore, Procyon Offshore, Varun Shipping
NORTH AMERICA PAGE 1
Abdon Callais, Atlantic Towing, Boluda, C&G Boats, Deepocean, Edison Chouest, Harvey Gulf Marine, Hornbeck, L&M Botruc, Naviera B Tamaulipas, Oddyssea, OIL, Otto Candies, Rowan, Seacor, Sea Nar Inc, Secunda, Tidewater.
NORTH AMERICA PAGE 2
Trico Marine
FAR EAST & AUSTRALIA
Alam Maritim, Allied Marine, Britoil, CH Offshore, Go Offshore, Hallin, Huawei Offshore, IOS, Jaya Holdings, Mermaid Marine, NOR Offshore, Petra Perdana, Swire Pacific,
MED & MIDDLE EAST
Adams, Augusta, Augustea, Brodospas, EDT Offshore, Finarge Genova, Five Oceans Salvage, Mar Sol, MCT, Med Offshore, NJSC Chornomornaftogaz, Portosalvo, Remolques Maritimos, Seaways International,

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THE ABERDEEN WEBCAM

	BUE MARINE
Time passes. To keep up with everything that is happening in the offshore world we would have to employ full time journalists, and then I suppose we would have to charge for the service. We do our best and we are still free (although some would say - just cheap). This is an excuse for not remembering when Seacor disposed of the Stirling Islay and the Stirling Jura to BUE, but we think it was in 2003. The ships had their upperworks removed and they were towed through the Russian canal system from the Black Sea to the Caspian, where they are now employed at what they do best. On having a look at this company in 2009 I found that it had at some time been purchased by a company called Renaissance Services who operate the Islay and Jura and a number of other vessels in the Caspian out of Azerbaijan and Kazakstan. Developments are still taking place in this organisation now called "Topaz Marine". We are aware that there are a number of vessels in the Caspian fleet but we don't know what they all are, but we've done what we can. Because of the change of location of the whole fleet, and the fact that BUE is now owned by a Middle Eastern company we have relocated its fleet list to "MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST" The Company now seems to be called BUE Caspian, a wholly owned subsidiary of Topaz Marine and it may own more ships than are displayed here, but there seems to be no information about. Updated 8/11/12
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ANCHOR HANDLERS

TYPE: VS 475		NAME: ISLAY		PHOTO: Craig Wilson, Wullie Bremner

General		Propulsion		Deck Equip
Length OA	74.75 m	Engines	2 x Wartsila 12V32	Workdrum pull	380 tonnes
Breadth	16 m	BHP	15000	Capacity 1	5490m x 77mm
DWT	2700 T	kW	11030	Capacity 2
Deck area	500 m2	For'd Thrusters	2 x 1000 bhp	Towdrum pull	380 tonnes
Fuel	853 m3	Aft Thrusters	1 x 1000 bhp	Capacity 1	1880m x 77mm
Pot water	564 m3	Bollard pull	175 tonnes	Capacity 2	1880m x 77mm
Mud	470 m3	DP	Simrad DP01-	Sharks Jaw	2 x Triplex
Base oil	128 m3	Joystick	Yes	Cranes	5T @11m radius
Brine	534 m3			Tank Cleaning
Dry bulk	242 m3	Year built	2002	Shipyard	Fergusons
Previous Names	Stirling
Comments	These two vessels were built by Stirling by BAE Marine in 2002, broadly following the previous vessel, Stirling Iona. They were sold by Seacor to BUE and are now in the Caspian Sea. (2004)

TYPE: VS 475		NAME: JURA		PHOTO: Derek Wood, Gavin Wills

General		Propulsion		Deck Equip
Length OA	74.75 m	Engines	2 x Wartsila 12V32	Workdrum pull	380 tonnes
Breadth	16 m	BHP	15000	Capacity 1	5490m x 77mm
DWT	2700 T	kW	11030	Capacity 2
Deck area	500 m2	For'd Thrusters	2 x 1000 bhp	Towdrum pull	380 tonnes
Fuel	853 m3	Aft Thrusters	1 x 1000 bhp	Capacity 1	1880m x 77mm
Pot water	564 m3	Bollard pull	175 tonnes	Capacity 2	1880m x 77mm
Mud	470 m3	DP	Simrad DP01-	Sharks Jaw	2 x Triplex
Base oil	128 m3	Joystick	Yes	Cranes	5T @11m radius
Brine	534 m3			Tank Cleaning
Dry bulk	242 m3	Year built	2002	Shipyard	Fergusons
Previous Names	Stirling
Comments	These two vessels were built by Stirling by BAE Marine in 2002, broadly following the previous vessel, Stirling Iona. They were sold by Seacor to BUE and are now in the Caspian Sea. (2004)

TYPE: BMT		NAME: TULPAR		PHOTO: -

GENERAL		PROPULSION		EQUIPMENT
Length OA	94.8 m	Engines	5 x Wartsila 12V	Workdrum pull	-
Breadth	21 m	BHP	-	Capacity 1	-
DWT	4000 t	kW	-	Capacity 2	-
Deck area	-	For'd Thruster	-	Towdrum pull	-
Fuel	-	Az Thruster	-	Capacity 1	-
Pot water	-	Aft Thrusters	-	Capacity 2	-
Mud	-	Bollard pull	-	Sharks Jaw	-
Brine	-	DP	-	Cranes	-
Dry bulk	-	Joystick	-	Tank cleaning	-
Year built	2002	Shipyard	Ulstein	Berths	-
Previous names	-
Comments	This is a specially designed shallow water ice-breaking supply vessel

TYPE: CONAN WU 73		NAME: CASPIAN POWER		PHOTO: -

GENERAL		PROPULSION		EQUIPMENT
Length OA	-	Engines	-	Workdrum pull	-
Breadth	-	BHP	12240	Capacity 1	-
DWT	3150 t	kW	9000	Capacity 2	-
Deck area	-	For'd Thruster	-	Towdrum pull	-
Fuel	-	Az Thruster	-	Capacity 1	-
Pot water	-	Aft Thrusters	-	Capacity 2	-
Mud	-	Bollard pull	-	Sharks Jaw	-
Brine	-	DP	-	Cranes	-
Dry bulk	-	Joystick	-	Tank cleaning	-
Year built	2010	Shipyard	Fujian	Berths	-
Previous names	-
Comments	-

CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER VESSELS

TYPE: CONAN WU 61		NAME: CASPIAN PROTECTOR		PHOTO:

GENERAL		PROPULSION		EQUIPMENT
Length OA	-	Engines	-	Workdrum pull	-
Breadth	-	BHP	5150	Capacity 1	-
DWT	1850 t	kW	3790	Capacity 2	-
Deck area	-	For'd Thruster	-	Accomm berths	-
Fuel	-	Az Thruster	-	Storage capacity	-
Pot water	-	Aft Az Props	-	ROV	-
Mud	-	Bollard pull	-	Diving Capability	-
Brine	-	DP II	-	Cranes	-
Dry bulk	-	Joystick	-	Tank cleaning	-
Year built	2010			Shipyard	Berjaya
Previous names	-
Comments	-

PLATFORM SHIPS

TYPE: UT 755 LC		NAME: CASPIAN SERVER		PHOTO:

GENERAL		PROPULSION		CARGO CAPACITY
Length OA	76.6 m	Engines	2 x Wartsila 8L26B2	Fuel	970 m3
Breadth	16.0 m	BHP/kW	7000/5150	Pot water	820 m3
DWT	3158 t	For'd Thrusters	2 x	Mud	970 m3
Deck area	675 m2	Az Thruster	-	Base oil	-
		Aft Thrusters	2 x	Brine	390 m3
Year built	2009	Joystick	-	Dry bulk	320 m3
Shipyard	Simek	DP	-	Tank Cleaning	-
Previous names	REM Server
Comments	-

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