Drydocks World has delivered seismic vessel Polarcus Selma to its owner Polarcus, a Dubai-based geophysical services company. The vessel is among a series of vessels of similar type that were built at the Dubai based facility for Polarcus and others with a vessel capex of USD 135 million.

The company said that Polarcus Selma is an ultra modern and Arctic ready 8 streamer 3D seismic vessel of the Ulstein SX133 design capable of towing both conventional and wide tow spreads including the company's first pass 3D technique.

The SX133 design has an overall length of 84.2 meters and a beam of 17 meters. Polarcus Selma has a maximum speed of 17 knots and is capable of deploying up to 8 streamers each of 6,000 meters length or 6 streamers each of 8,000 meters length, with lateral streamer separations of between 25 meters and 200 meters.

The vessel, like its predecessors, is amongst the most environmentally sound vessels in the market with diesel electric propulsion high specification catalytic convertors, grounding avoidance systems, double hulls and advanced ballast water treatment bilge water cleaning systems that will prevent organic or inorganic contamination of the marine environment.

(Sourced from Trade Arabia)