''Yavuz'', ex ''Deepsea Metro I'', is a

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owned and operated by the state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO). She is Turkey's second drillship.

Name

Yavuz means "Resolute" in Turkish. The three drillships of the state-owned Turkish gas company, Fatih, Yavuz and Kanuni, are named after the most famous conquerors and rulers of the

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Mehmed I Mehmed I ( 1386 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi ( ota, چلبی محمد, "the noble-born") or Kirişçi ( el, Κυριτζής, Kyritzis, "lord's son"), was the Ottoman sultan from 1413 to 1421. The fourth son of Sultan Bayezid ...

, Turkish: Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Mehmed the Conqueror, who conquered Constantinople in 1453;

Selim I Selim I ( ota, سليم الأول; tr, I. Selim; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute ( tr, links=no, Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite las ...

(r. 1512-1520), known as Selim the Resolute, Turkish: Yavuz Sultan Selim, who hugely expanded his empire; and

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ ...

(r. 1520-1566), known in Turkish as Kanunî Sultan Süleyman ("the Lawgiver"), under whom the empire reached its apex.

History

The ship was designed by

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subsidiary GustoMSC and built by the Hyundai Heavy Industries,

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at Ulsan Shipyard in

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in July 2011, and christened ''Deepsea Metro I''. Flagged

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(2011-2018) and the

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(2018-2019), the drillship was owned by Golden Close Maritime Corp., and operated by Odfjell Drilling. She served off Tanzania (2012-2014) and Kenya (2014) until the end of 2014, off Vietnam (2015-2017) and Philippines (2017). In May 2017, it became idle and was warm stacked in Malaysia waiting for a new contract. The ship was purchased in October 2018 by the state-owned company

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(TPAO) at a price of US$262.5 million. She sailed off

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in Spain, and arrived in the

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on 22 February 2019. It was reported that the ship was named ''Yavuz'', and will start drilling operations in the

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, right after the completion of maintenance and renovation works off

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. It is the second of three drillships purchased by Turkey, after '' Fatih'', ex ''Deepsea Metro II'', and before '' Kanuni''.

Characteristics

The deepwater drillship is long and has a beam of and a draft of . Assessed at and , she has a max. speed of and in service. The vessel is able to carry out drilling at a sea depth up to .

Ship registry

* ex ''Deepsea Metro I'' Bahama-flagged (July 2011 - October 2018) * ex ''Deepsea Metro I'' Marshall Islands-flagged (December 2018 - March 2019)

References

{{commons category, Yavuz (ship, 2011) Drillships 2011 ships Ships built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Group Ships of Turkey Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Turkey)

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