Everything about Knock Nevis totally explained
The
Knock Nevis is a
floating storage and offloading unit currently owned by the
Norwegian company
Fred Olsen Production.
History
Knock Nevis was built in
1979 at
Sumitomo Heavy Industries's
Oppama shipyard as
Seawise Giant.
A deal was reached, but Tung required the ship's size be increased by several meters in length and 87,000 metric tons of cargo capacity. She had 46 tanks, of deck space, and was too large to pass through the
English Channel. In this period, she was renamed twice, sailing as
Happy Giant from 1989 to 1991, and
Jahre Viking from 1991 to 2004.
The ship was damaged during the
Iran-Iraq War while transiting the
Strait of Hormuz. As a result of the damage, she was declared a total loss and laid up in
Brunei.On
November 30,
2004 the conversion to FSO was completed. Since 2004, she's been owned by First Olsen Tankers Pte. Ltd.
The ship is now permanently moored in the
Qatar Al Shaheen oil field in the
Persian Gulf, operating as an
FSO.
Size record
In terms of length,
Knock Nevis has a
length overall of, making her the
largest ship ever constructed. The vessel is longer than many of the world's tallest buildings are tall, for example the
Petronas Twin Towers at . She is smaller than the
Sears Tower at, and
Taipei 101 at, and considerably smaller than the skyscraper
Burj Dubai, currently under construction, at .
Knock Nevis isn't the largest ship in all measures, though. By gross tonnage, for example, she ranks fifth, at 236,710 GT, behind the four
Batillus class supertankers which range from 274,838 to 275,276 GT. All these ships are among the largest man-made moving objects in the world - the
Troll A platform is even bigger, though is was designed to be moved only once.
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