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A.649(16) RESOLUTION A.649(16) Adopted on 19 October 1989 Agenda item 10 CODE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING UNITS, 1989 THE ASSEMBLY, RECALLING Article 15()) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines concern- ing maritime safety, NOTING that mobile offshore drilling units continue to be moved and operated inter- nationally, RECOGNIZING that the design criteria for such units are often quite different from those of conventional ships and that, by virtue of this, the application of international con- ventions, such as the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended, and the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, as amended, is inappro- priate in respect of mobile offshore drilling units, RECALLING that when the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Offshore Drilling Units (MODU Code) was adopted in 1979 by resolution A.4141XI) it was recognized that the design technology of mobile offshore drilling units was rapidly evolving and that new features of mobile offshore drilling units would be introduced to improve technical and safety standards, RECALLING ALSO that the Maritime Safety Committee was authorized to amend the Code as necessary after due consultations with the relevant organizations, as the Commit- tee deemed necessary, NOTING that since the 1979 edition of the MODU Code was adopted there have been a number of tragic MODU casualties which have emphasized the need for a review of the international safety standards developed by the Organization, HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Commit- tee at its fifty-seventh session, 1. ADOPTS the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, 1989 (1989 MODU Code’, the text of which is set out in the Annex to this reso ution, which supersedes the existing MODU Code adopted by Assembly resolution A.414(Xi) for mobile offshore drilling units whose keels are laid or which are at a similar stage of construction on or after 1 May 1991 2, INVITES all Governments concemed: (a) to take appropriate steps to give effect to the Code; (b)_ to consider the Cade as an equivalent, for purposes of application to mobile off- shore drilling units, to the technical requirements of the above-mentioned Con- ventions, 55Res. A.649(16) (c)_ to inform IMO of measures taken in this respect 3. AUTHORIZES the Maritime Safety Committee to amend the 1989 MODU Code, when appropriate, taking into consideration the developing design and safety features after due consultation with appropriate organizations. ANNEX : CODE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING UNITS, 1989 CONTENTS Preamble Chapter 1 - General Section 1 ~ Purpose Section 2 - Application Section 3 - Definitions Section 4 ~ Exemptions Section 5 - Equivalents Section 6 - Surveys and certification Section 7 ~ Control Section 8 ~ Casualties Section 9 ~ Review of the Code Chapter 2 ~ Construction, strength and materials Section 1 - General Section 2~ Design loads Section 3 - Structural analysis Section 4 — Special considerations for surface units Section 5 - Special considerations for self-elevating units Section 6 ~ Special considerations for column-stabilized units Section 7 — Fatigue analysis Section 8 - Materials, Section 9 — Construction portfolio Section 10 - Welding Section 11 - Testing Chapter 3 - Subdivision, stability and freeboard Section 1 ~ Inclining test Section 2 ~ Righting moment and heeling moment curves Section 3 — Intact stability criteria Section 4 — Subdivision and damage stabilityRes. A.649(16) Section 5 — Extent of damage Section 6 — Watertight integrity Section 7 — Freeboard Chapter 4 ~ Machinery installations for all types of units Section 1 ~ General : Section 2 — Machinery requirements Section 3 - Steam boilers and boiler feed systems Section 4 - Steam pipe systems : Section 5 - Machinery controls Section 6 ~ Air pressure systems Section 7 — Arrangements for oil fuel, lubricating oil and other flammable oils Section 8 — Bilge pumping arrangements Section 9 — Ballast pumping arrangements on column-stabilized units Section 10 — Protection against flooding Section 11 - Anchoring arrangements for surface and column-stabilized units a Section 12 ~ Dynamic positioning systems Chapter 5 - Electrical installations for all types of units Section 1 ~ General electrical requirements Section 2 — Main source of electrical power Section 3 - Emergency source of electrical power Section 4 ~ Starting arrangements for emergency generators Section 6 ~ Precautions against shock, fire and other hazards of electrical origin Section 6 ~ Internal communication Chapter 6 - Machinery and electrical installations in hazardous areas for all types of units Section 1 - Zones Section 2 — Classification of hazardous areas Section 3 - Openings, access and ventilation conditions affecting the extent of hazardous areas Section 4 — Ventilation of spaces Section 5 - Emergency conditions due to drilling operations Section 6 ~ Electrical installations in hazardous areas Section 7 ~ Machinery installations in hazardous areas Chapter 7 - Machinery and electrical installations for self-propelled units Section 1. ~ General Section 2. - Means of going astern Section 3. - Steam boilers and boiler feed systems Section 4 - Machinery controls Section 5 - Steering gear Section 6 — Electric and electrohydraulic steering gear Section 7 - Communication between the navigating bridge and the engine-room R7