Vessel Tracking
MPI Discovery & Adventure
Monday 8 June 2009
Following the success of the Resolution, MPI Offshore have invested in two new builds, MPI Adventure and MPI Discovery.

Delivery of these is spring 2011 and autumn 2011 (available in Europe). Both Vessels have enhanced systems which will maintain MPI-Offshore as the preferred ‘Installation Solution.’
Download MPI Adventure Brochure
Download MPI Discovery Brochure
Currently MPI Resolution is the first and only purpose built vessel for installing offshore wind turbine components and foundations. MPI Resolution has proved that the Transport Installation Vessel (TIV) concept is the choice of the industry.

At the point of delivery in 2011 MPI Adventure and MPI Discovery will be the second and third purpose built vessels for Offshore Wind.
Their enhanced design features have been sourced and integrated from designing and operating MPI Resolution.
These new built vessels will transport, lift and install more wind turbines and their foundations than any other solution. This is achieved by improved deck space, lifting capacity, jacking speed, increased power and improved enviromental operability .
This has been achieved without losing the original concept, of the unique combination of tested technologies, pioneered by MPI Resolution and MPI Offshore.

General Information
Classification: Det Norske Veritas : 1A1 Self-elevating unit, EO, DYNPOS-AUTR, HELDK, CLEAN
Number of Jackup Legs: 6 @ 72.00 metres
Flag State: Cyprus
Operating Area: Unrestricted
Endurance: 240 Days Maximum Speed, Minimum Crew, 36 Days Maximum Crew
Lightship: 14,739Te
Lightship Draft: 3.5m
Overall Length: 138.55m
Breadth (moulded): 40.80m
Depth (moulded): 10.00m
Cargo & Accommodation Capacity
Maximum Deadweight: 7,095Te
Maximum Cargo Area: 3,600m2
Maximum Deck Loading: 10.00Te/m2
Forklift: 50.00Te
Main Crane
Main Hoist 1,000Te @ 25m radius
104m Hook Height
Aux Hoist 160Te @ 70.0m radius
Trolley Hoist 20Te
Auxiliary Crane
50Te @ 25.0m radius
Accommodation
112 POB
50 Single + Pullman Berths
12 Single Cabins
Utilities for 200 Max POB
Utilities
Client Offices, Conference Room, Recreation/Reading Rooms, Coffee Shop, Galley, Mess, Gymnasium, Sauna, Laundry/Drying Room, M/F Changing Rooms
Operating Conditions
Service: Unrestricted (as per DNV rules)
Jacking Operations (all concurrent)
3.0m Wave (Hmax)
14m/s wind
1.86m/s Total Current
Jacked Survival (all concurrent)
10.0m Wave (Hmax)
36m/s wind
2.21m/s Total Current
Maximum Operating Depth*: 40m (depending on leg configuration) *At 5.0m leg penetration and 7.8m Air Gap
Minimum Operating Draft: 3.5m (lightship)
Maximum Operating Draft: 5.5m
Air Draft: 67m (@ 5m draft)
Crane Operations: 16.0m/s wind speed
Performance
Transit Speed: 12.5 Knots
Maximum Jacking Speed: 60m/hr (platform handling) 120m/hr (leg handling)
Maximum Jacking Load: 3,750Te/Leg
Maximum Jack Holding: 7,500Te/Leg
LATEST NEWS
MPI Offshore Scoop Industry Award Thursday 16 February 2012
MPI Offshore have been announced as the inaugural winner of the Offshore Renewables award at the recent Annual Offshore Support Journal awards held in London.
READ MOREMPI Offshore Takes Delivery of MPI Discovery Friday 4 November 2011
MPI Offshore Limited (MPI) is pleased to announce the delivery, in Qidong, People’s Republic of China, of the MPI Discovery, the second of two state-of-the art wind turbine installation vessels to be built at the Cosco Qidong Shipyard. The vessel left the Shipyard today, 28 October 2011.
READ MOREE.ON Secures State-Of-The-Art Offshore Vessel from MPI Wednesday 29 June 2011
E.ON Climate & Renewables and MPI-Vroon have today signed a 6 year charter for the MPI Discovery, a specialist vessel used in the construction of offshore wind farms.
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Thanet Offshore Wind Farm
Wednesday 5 August 2009
During December '08 MPI Offshore finalized a third Party charter to take Resolution to assist with the construction of the foundations for the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, now owned by Vattenfall the Swedish/German Utility.
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