"The Titan 2"

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Titan-2 is a crane-mounting vessel that is unique and designed to perform specific production tasks: installation and dismantling of floating drilling platforms and their maintenance.

Design and construction
An example of transport and installation floating cranes is the Titan type float cranes built at the Wärtsilä shipyard in Turku. Between 1984 and 1988, four ships were launched: Titan, Titan 2, Titan 3, and Titan 4. By order of the Soviet Union, two floating cranes (TITAN 2 and TITAN 3) were specially built to work on the oil fields of the continental shelf of the USSR. Both ships were towed along the rivers and canals of the Soviet Union to the Caspian Sea, where they were completed at a local shipyard in Astrakhan under the supervision of specialists from Turku.

All crane vessels have a catamaran type of hull with a carrying capacity of the upper structure of 600 tons. For the best fixation of the vessel is equipped with eight anchors of the Bruce type. The upper deck of the ship is designed for the transportation of goods and its area is equal to a football field. The power plant of the floating crane consists of two main diesel engines, one for each body. However, the propulsion system of the Titan 2 floating crane was improved in 2002. In addition, it was equipped with four external propeller columns of the Azipod type of low thrust, with a total capacity of 1045 hp.

Technical specifications
Technical characteristics of the Titan-2 floating crane:

Displacement - 19813 tons;

Length: 144 m;

54 m wide;

Precipitation 4.1 m;

Load capacity - 600 tons;

The arrow is 73 m long.

Operation
"Titan-2" almost never visited the native land. After the collapse of the USSR, it was immediately leased by foreign charterers. In 1994, Titan 2 helped build a sea platform in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1995, U.S. marshals imposed a fine on him that was barely paid. There was a Ukrainian crew on board. In 2007, Titan 2 was upgraded by Global Industries (USA) to work on larger offshore projects. It installed additional equipment of Gulf Investments (UAE) worth $ 14.7 million, which includes a unique dynamic positioning system, fire extinguishing system, residential boxes, crane installations.

Since 2003, the ship was in a bareboat charter (in merchant shipping - a charter agreement for a ship without a crew) with the Swedish company Baltic Offshore Marine Contractors (recognized bankrupt in 2015), which in turn in 2011 transferred the ship in coordination with Chernomorneftegaz to the sub-freight of the Mexican company Oceanografia SA de CV (the last operator of the vessel) for the period until April 2016. The latter used the specified vessel to fulfill orders of the Mexican state oil company Pemex. Every year, Chernomorneftegaz, as the owner, was transferred $3.65 million for rent.

In 2013, Oceanografia went bankrupt, and Mexican authorities arrested 400 ships of the company