The MT6000 was the first vessel to appear from the Marin Teknikk design house, and at the time it caused quite a stir. It had an extremely large deck area and had azimuthing thrusters aft, a feature now common on all platform ships, but then quite rare. When the vessel features here first appeared it was immediately hired by TOTAL, and remained working for them for many years.

TYPE: MT 6000		NAME: Skandi Buchan		PHOTOS: Vic Gibson
GENERAL		PROPULSION		CARGO CAPACITY
Length OA	83.8 m	Engines	Wartsila 9120LF	Fuel	1299 m3
Breadth	19.7 m	BHP	8000	Pot water	1050 m3
DWT	4100 t	For'd Thrusters	1 x 880 kW	Mud	653 m3
Deck area	912 m2	Az Thruster	1 x 880 kW	Base oil	180 m3
		Aft Azimuths	2 x 2200 kW	Brine	720 m3
Year built	2002	Joystick	Yes	Dry bulk	396.6 m3
Shipyard	Fitjar	DP		Tank Cleaning	Scanjet
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