Histria Azure
| History | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Name: | Histria Azure |
| Owner: | Histria Shipmanagement |
| Port of registry: |
Majuro,  Marshall Islands |
| Ordered: | 2005 |
| Builder: | Constanța Shipyard |
| Yard number: | 576 |
| Launched: | 2007 |
| Completed: | 2007 |
| In service: | 2007 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Oil tanker |
| Tonnage: | 40,439 tons |
| Length: | 179.95 m (590.4 ft) |
| Beam: | 32.2 m (106 ft) |
| Draft: | 11 m (36 ft) |
| Depth: | 16.5 m (54 ft) |
| Installed power: | 12,360 kilowatts (16,580 hp) |
| Speed: | 15 knots (17 mph) |
| Capacity: | 47,803 m3 |
| Crew: | Romanian |
Histria Azure 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 Azure was built by the Constanța Shipyard in 2008 as a 40,439 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 Azure 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]