After completing these trips, the Jumbo Kinetic was deployed to carry a 1,500-tonne module from Batam in Indonesia to Brazil. The maiden trip of the Fairmaster involved the transport of power plant equipment from Yokohama in Japan to Kaohsiung in Taiwan. In June 2015, Jumbo Offshore’s Fairplayer then installed the mooring system for the FPSO EnQuest Producer, in the Alma/Galia field in the British sector of the North Sea. Later in the year, the Fairplayer transported a further three large FPSO modules from Thailand to Brazil. All were intended for installation on the P-74 FPSO operated by Petrobras. With the addition of the two new K-3000 class vessels, the Jumbo fleet now consists of 16 project cargo transport vessels.
fast crew suppliers and a whole series of heavy harbour tugs of the types ASD 3212, ASD 2510 and ATD 2411. The Happy Star, equipped with two 900-tonne mast cranes, also carried a 1,200-tonne loading platform module from Batam to Western Australia. The module was intended for the Wheatstone project. The Happy Star’s sister vessel, the Happy Sky, carried a large bridge and stepping tower to Western Africa, from the Far East, for deployment in the Mafumeira project off the coast of Cabinda. The Happy Sky was later deployed to collect a project cargo from Zeebrugge, for transport to Sabetta on the Russian Yamal peninsula. For her part, the Transporter carried four subsea manifolds and two riser bases fabricated by MC Technologies, from Houston to the TEN field off the coast of Ghana. At present, the BigLift Shipping fleet consists of 15 heavy lift vessels.
BigLift Shipping operates in the same segment as Jumbo. This operator hit the headlines last year with a mega transport operation for the Damen Shipyards Group. On board the Happy Star, a new addition to the fleet in 2014, a total of 22 new-built vessels were transported from the Far East to Rotterdam. These included a series of barges and small workboats, as well as a number of
In 2016, BigRoll Shipping, the joint venture between BigLift Shipping and RollDock Shipping is due to take delivery of three MC-class module carriers, the Bigroll Barentsz, Bigroll Bering and Bigroll Baffin. The fourth and also final ship from this series, the Bigroll Beaufort, will be handed over in 2017. All four vessels have a
Three FPSO modules were transported from Thailand to Brazil on board the Fairplayer. (Photograph: Jumbo Shipping)
22
NETHERLANDS OIL & GAS CATALOGUE 2016