Keppel Verolme Rotterdam
One of the largest dry-docks in Europe With one of the largest dry-docks in Europe and ideally located in Rotterdam, close to the oil and gas fields of the Netherlands, UK and Norway, with direct access to the North Sea, Keppel Verolme is the yard of choice for seagoing vessels and floating offshore units in the region.
One of the key assets of the Keppel Verolme yard in Rotterdam is the mammoth dry-dock. Originally built in 1970 to carry out maintenance to Large Crude Oil Carriers, the dock is used for dry-docking large offshore units and vessels nowadays. Measuring 405 metres in length and 90 metres in width, with a water depth of 11,06 metres it can accommodate up to three offshore units simultaneously. The intermediate wall in the dry dock
The ‘Lewek Constellation’ stayed in dry-dock for a couple of weeks.
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can be positioned at two locations and provides the yard the flexibility to undertake short and long term projects at the same time. Lewek Constellation
In late 2014 the shipshape ultra-high tension, deepwater, reel lay and heavy lift vessel ‘Lewek Constellation’ of owner EMAS Offshore Pte. Ltd. called on the Port of Rotterdam. First, the vessel went to Huisman in Schiedam,
for the installation of a Multi Lay system, a combined pipe-lay tower for both reel lay and flex lay. Thereafter, the vessel shifted to Keppel Verolme where she stayed in dry-dock for a couple of weeks. Keppel Verolme’s scope of work consisted of the installation of cylinders of the ROV moonpools, skidbeams, the prefabrication and installation of underdeck reinforcement and the prefabrication and installation of