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Hamworthy provides specialist equipment and service to marine and offshore and onshore oil and gas markets. We provide a wide range of innovative solutions for our customers across a number of long term growth markets. Our main market today is the new building of specialist ship types, predominantly oil and gas carriers and cruise ships. Its business activities are currently organised into four main operating divisions:
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The pump systems division is divided into three product groups: deepwell pumps, pump room systems and engine room systems. The division supplies products predominantly for LPG carriers, product and chemical tankers, crude oil tankers and FPSOs.
Hamworthy Svanehøj A/S, the Group’s Danish subsidiary, has been the market leader in deepwell pumps for LPG carriers for some years. In 1997, Hamworthy Svanehøj A/S made its first sales of the new DL pump targeted at a much larger market segment: product and chemical and carriers. It is an electrically driven deepwell pump with an oil lubricated shaft and sophisticated sealing system, which has a number of advantages over its competitors, including lower cost installation, quieter running and reduced risk of polluting the cargo due to the sealing system. Within the last few years Hamworthy has developed and received orders for two new pumps: (1) the CKL pump with an oil lubricated shaft targeted at FPSOs and larger product tankers of 50,000 dwt and above and (2) the CL/DL pump with a cargo lubricated shaft for the FPSO market. Hamworthy has built a dedicated 30 metre high test tower for these large products and the breadth of its range coupled with the test tower give it significant advantages over its direct competitors.
Hamworthy supplies pumps and complete turnkey installations including complete cargo control systems for the discharge of tanker cargo. Hamworthy have an unmatched capability in cargo pumping systems. We are the
only supplier that can deliver both line shaft, pump room and submerged
configurations. We have more than 100 years of successful business behind us and several thousand
ships are in operation with our pumps on board including pump room systems for
FPSO's/FSO's, tankers of all sizes from VLCC's to handy size including shuttle tankers
for offshore loading operations. Based on this experience and our ability to continuously develop our technology in
accordance with the latest requirements in tanker design and operation, we are in
a unique position to satisfy our customers.
Hamworthy has more than 100 years experience in the design and munfacture of engine room pumps. Hamworthy provides pumps to all ship types for a variety of applications such as cooling water, ballast fire and general service, boiler feed and circulating fuel, transfer bilge / sludge and hydrophore system
The gas systems division is located in Asker, Norway.The products are:
These systems allow cargo vapour boil-off created during transportation to be reliquefied and returned to cargo, thereby minimising cargo loss and reducing emissions.
LNG carriers can be used as floating import terminals for LNG (RSVs or FSRUs) by installing a LNG regasification plant using direct steam heated Glycol/Water mixture as a heating medium or alternatively Propane/Seawater in cascade loops.
LNG liquefies at minus 160 centigrade and reliquefaction is a process which enables LNG cargo boil-off (evaporated LNG) to be reliquefied and returned to the cargo during transportation. This enables a ship to be powered by more efficient and lower maintenance cost slow speed diesel engines. Such diesel powered units can provide ship owners with annual operating savings of up to US$5 million per vessel.
These systems reliquefy hydrocarbon gas emissions from crude oil for storage and later use in order to comply with environmental legislation for shuttle tankers. Hamworthy managed to obtain all of the latest orders to be announced for the retrofit of North Sea shuttle tankers and its major competitor in this area has since announced its withdrawal from the business.
These systems supply oxygen-depleted air to prevent explosions during transportation and comprise flue gas systems, inert gas generators and nitrogen membrane systems. Using the brand name Moss, Hamworthy is a leader in the development, design, manufacture and servicing of inert gas and nitrogen systems for marine applications. Systems are currently produced in Norway but the component sourcing and assembly operations are currently being moved to the Group’s facility in China.
In recent years, Hamworthy has been active in improving its technical capability to supply specialist IGS packages to the offshore sector. Hamworthy has recently completed a redesign of its IGS packages for gas carriers resulting in substantial cost reductions and has begun to increase orders in this profitable segment of the market.
The Water systems division is based in Poole, Dorset
provides advanced, environmentally friendly solutions
for the treatment and separation of liquid waste products
on all vessels to enable a clean discharge.
In response to tougher environmental regulation of cruise vessels, the Hamworthy has been successful in extending its original product range that dealt with “black water” into the developing “grey water” market by combining core aerobic sewage treatment technology with filtration and micro-membrane separation. Hamworthy holds the leading position in terms of market share for the supply of advanced water treatment systems and meets all relevant standards, including those introduced in 2003, for cruise ships operating in Alaskan waters. There are currently initiatives for similar standards to be applied to the cruise ship fleets of the major operators.
Hamworthy is a leading supplier for merchant vessels in this area. The plants treat water from toilets through aeration, settling and disinfecting processes to meet overboard discharge requirements. As a result of cost reductions achieved by transferring the manufacturing plant to China, Hamworthy has improved its market share and has increased the number of tanks ordered in the year ended 31 March 2004 by 60 per cent. compared with the previous year.
Hamworthy Serck Como provide two types of condensation plants - Air Cooled Condensers and Water Cooled Condensers. The Hamworthy condensation plants can be cooled both by fresh water, cooling tower water, river water and by sea water. Apart from the supply of apparatus Hamworthy Serck Como also offer a supply of complete condenser installations including all the necessary aggregates such as evacuating systems, condensate pumps, condensate level control and safety valve.
Hamworthy Serck Como´s Fresh Water Generators are defined by the following categories:
Multiple Effect Desalination, Multi Stage Flash - Cruise, Plate Type Evaporators, Re-hardening Filters, Rising Film Evaporators, Submerged Tube Evaporators, UV-Radiation, Water Treatment
This product reduces the pollutant level of a vessel’s machinery space bilge water using gravity, settling and surface attraction effects. Hamworthy intends to take advantage of the standards to be imposed by the new IMO rules which become effective in January 2005 and which the Directors believe are likely to lead to demand for more advanced oily water separators and, as a result, the average price per unit is expected to increase by a factor of at least three.
The first large scale thermal seawater desalination plants for land based applications have already been developed and installed in the 20th century. This extremely robust evaporation process is applied in most of the large scale land-based installations in the Gulf region, where power plants and MSF (Multi Stage Flash) plants are combined to large dual purpose installations for combined power and water production.
The Group is a global organisation that has sales and service offices throughout the world to service the major marine markets of Europe, the Far East and the USA.
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