Green Yard Kleven have entered into a contract for a major conversion of an Offshore ship for Geoquip Marine. The ship is an original Kleven built PSV that now will get a sustainable retrofit and extended lifetime.
To use an existing hull save materials, co2 emissions, lead time and cost.
The ship is a Marin Teknikk MT6000 design, and due to its pioneering design at the time, the vessel still is very competitive today.
We will convert the ship from regular platform supply vessel, into a modern geotechnical survey vessel for the renewable energy market.
Additional cabins, Moonpool, new DP system and class upgrade will be done by Green Yard Kleven.
The contract was awarded in a close cooperation with Marin Teknikk as, and Fearnley Offshore Supply shipbroker.
MT will also the do the design and engineering for the conversion.
Marin Teknikk have a long and good relationship with Green Yard Kleven over many years. We have done more than 40 projects together and we are proud to have landed one more project, says
Sales Director Richard Gjerde at Marin Teknikk
Last 4 years Green Yard have delivered more than 60 conversion projects, and have also lately entered into a new building contract for a energy service vessel. The contract will secure god activity for the first quarter of 2025, together with some other ongoing projects.
We are very happy that a Geoquip as a ship owner find our sustainable shipbuilding interesting and awarding us this contract. We are proud that our focus on sustainability, high quality and delivery precision give us a position in the market for this kind of projects, say Sales Manager Retrofit Karl Johan Barstad
We have had a good process with the customer in the bidding and contract phase and looking forward to a good project period.
Green Yard Kleven has four other conversion projects ongoing, and also a few unreleased projects in the pipeline in addition to this one.
Green Yard aims to be the most sustainable alternative in the industry.
The shipyards Green Yard Kleven in Ulsteinvik and Green Yard Feda by Flekkefjord are part of the Green Yard Group. We offer all types of shipyard services for ships and rigs for both national and international customers. This can be anything from small assignments to large and complicated conversions, new builds, rig service, ship recycling and mobile yard services.