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Tsavliris tow Atwood Eagle
01 Jan 2003
The Tsavliris Salvage Group has been awarded a contract to tow the semi-submersible drilling rig Atwood Eagle from Greece to Angola, a journey of 5,500 miles expected to take two and a half months. Towing commenced in late November using one of the world's largest and most powerful salvage tugs, the 40,000hp Fotiy Krylov.
Atwood Eagle has recently undergone a major refit and conversion at Elefsis Shipyards in Greece and was too large to be accommodated by existing facilities, necessitating a semi-submersible barge to be brought from Texas to act as a dry-dock. The rig is 99m long, 74m in beam and 7.62m deep, with an approximate displacement weight in transit of about 14,500 tonnes.
The project is the latest in a series of highly demanding ocean towages undertaken recently by the Tsavliris Group with a variety of major floating structures.
Included is last winter's towage in North America of the drilling rig Eirik Raude, which was carried out by Fotiy Krylov and her sister ship Nikolay Chiker, to be followed later by Nikolay Chiker's marathon towage of the Soviet-built aircraft carrier Varyag from the Aegean Sea to China.
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