MV Karadeniz Powership Doğan Bey
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The MV Karadeniz Powership Doğan Bey is a Liberia
Liberia
Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

-flagged powership
Powership
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, a floating power plant, owned and operated by the Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 based Turkish
Turkey
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 company Karadeniz Powership Co. Built 1983 by Mitsui
Mitsui
is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...

 Co. in Ichihara, Chiba
Ichihara, Chiba
is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of August 2010, the city has an estimated population of 279,080, with a population density of 758 persons per km². The total area of Ichihara was 368.20 km²...

, Japan
Japan
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 and christened MV Sono, she sailed as a dry cargo ship under various names and flags until she was converted 2010 into a powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla
Tuzla (district)
Tuzla is a small town, a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey on the Asian side of the city beyond Kartal and Pendik. Tuzla is on a headland on the coast of the Marmara Sea, at the eastern limit of the city. The mayor is Şadi Yazıcı .-History:...

, Turkey
Turkey
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. Currently, moored ashore of Basra
Basra
Basra is the capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq near Kuwait and Iran. It had an estimated population of two million as of 2009...

, she supplies electricity to the power grid in south-eastern Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

.

Cargo ship

The ship was built in 1983 (according to some sources in 1984) as a bulk carrier with deck mounted cranes by the Japanese shipyard Mitsui Co in Ichihara, Chiba with yard number 1264 and was named Sono. The 188.14 metre long vessel has a beam of 31.04 metre and a draft of 10.72 metre. By 41,525 DWT
Deadweight tonnage
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, she has a cargo capacity of . The ship is propelled by a single screw, which is powered by a 13,100 HP
Horsepower
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 MAN B&W Diesel
MAN B&W Diesel
MAN Diesel SE was a provider of large-bore diesel engines for marine propulsion systems and power plant applications. MAN Diesel employs over 7,700 staff, primarily in Germany, Denmark, France, the Czech Republic, India and China...

 engine.

Misr Shipping Co. in Egypt
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 purchased and renamed her Saqqara. Later, she was bought by Bright Star Marine in Malta
Malta
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 and was renamed Seapace. The Greek
Greece
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 company Thenamaris Ships Man. operated the cargo ship under the flag of Malta. Her next owner became another Greek maritime company, Vulcanus Technical Maritime Enterprises S.A., which renamed her to Melpomeni.

Sister ships

  • Seaboxer II, Malta (ex-Aton) (IMO 8117029)
  • Radonezh, Liberia (ex-Abydos) (IMO 8117017)
  • Searider, Malta (ex-Thebes) (IMO 8204286)

Project "Power of Friendship"

Karadeniz Energy Group in Turkey developed a project named "Power of Friendship", which aims to supply electricity to shortage-stricken countries in the Middle East
Middle East
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, northern Africa and southern Asia. The project provides for the building of ten floating power plants with a total capacity of 2,010 MW until the end of 2010.

For the manufacturing of the on-board power plant, a contract was signed with the German
Germany
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 MAN Diesel
MAN B&W Diesel
MAN Diesel SE was a provider of large-bore diesel engines for marine propulsion systems and power plant applications. MAN Diesel employs over 7,700 staff, primarily in Germany, Denmark, France, the Czech Republic, India and China...

 company based in Augsburg
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. The contract, worth over
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100 million, includes the supply of 24 large-bore diesel engines, along with electromechanical equipment to be installed on four powerships with a total output of 400 MW. Twenty one of them are of type 18V51/60DF dual-fuel diesel engines and the three of type 14V48/60 heavy fuel oil engines. The dual-fuel diesel engines allow the powership to generate electricity running either on heavy fuel or natural gas, whatever the infrastructure is available at site.

Powership

The freighter Melpomeni was finally acquired in 2009 by Karadeniz Powership Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Karadeniz Energy Group, with the purpose to turn her into a floating power plant sailing under the Liberian flag. She was renamed Karadeniz Powership Doğan Bey after Nuri Doğan Karadeniz, the CEO of the parent company.

The Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul was commissioned by May 2009 with the task to convert the cargo ship into a powership by installing the needed engine-generator
Engine-generator
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s, transformer
Transformer
A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...

s and the electric switchboard
Electric switchboard
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s on board.

Doğan Bey is the first of its kind, a powership with dual-fuel diesel engines installed on-board. Aboard the vessel, twelve generator units are installed having 11 MW each. Three units are packed in one of the ship's four hold
Hold
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s and fans and funnels mounted on deck.

Bureau Veritas
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, an international certification agency with experience in overseeing both shipbuilding and power plant development, classified the vessel following its conversion as "special service-floating power plant".

On April 3, 2010, the floating power plant was ready to go to its first mission in Iraq. After a sending-off ceremony held at the Sedef Shipyard in presence of the Turkish and Iraqi ministers of energy, she sailed to Basra, arriving there on May 1.

Currently, the Doğan Bey is moored at Berth #9 of Umm Qasr Port
Umm Qasr Port
Umm Qasr Port is Iraq's only deep water port, part of the city of Umm Qasr.Iraq's second port in scale of size and goods shipped to the port of Basra, it is strategically important, located on the western edge of the al-Faw peninsula, where the mouth of the Shatt al Arab waterway enters the Persian...

, south-eastern Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, at the country's hub of imports and exports. The power plant on the ship's deck generates electricity using a refined fuel provided by the Iraqi Department of Energy and runs it to the national power grid. It is reported that the powership has the ability to supply Umm Qasr with all the electric energy required and some left over.

The power plant on the ship is operated and maintained by Turkish personnel while for the security of the facility, around 70 local guards are hired.

After Mutlu Çevik, the powership's captain and manager, Doğan Bey will provide electricity in Iraq for the next five years following a contract signed with the local Department of Energy.

Fleet members

  • MV Karadeniz Powership Rauf Bey 200 MW (underway to Basra)
  • MV Karadeniz Powership Kaya Bey 260 MW (under construction)

Ship's registry

  • ex-MV Sono
  • ex-MV Saqqara, Egypt-flagged, owned by Misr Shipping Co. and operated by The Egyptian Navigation Co.
  • ex-MV Seapace, Malta-flagged, owned by Bright Star Marine, Malta and operated by Thenamaris Ships Man., Greece.
  • ex-MV Melpomeni, Malta-flagged, owned and operated by Vulcanus Technical Maritime Enterprises S.A., Greece
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