deadweight capacity of 21,000 tonnes, and FinnishSwedish 1A Ice Class registration. Other projects In March 2015, heavy transport specialist Mammoet installed the Malampaya Phase 3 Depletion Compression Platform on behalf of Shell, in the West Philippine Sea. This self-installing platform (SIP) was set down alongside the Malampaya Shallow Water Production Platform. Mammoet was also responsible for the assembly and
loadout of a 366 metre-high jacket, weighing 30,000 tonnes. This Coelacanth jacket, fabricated on behalf of Gulf Marine Fabricators from Ingleside in the American state of Texas, was one of the largest ever installed in the Gulf van Mexico. Another eye-catching project completed by Mammoet last year involved the weighing and transporting of 12 large modules with SPMTs, at the Brasa Shipyard in Brazil. The heaviest single module weighed 1,580 tonnes. These modules were intended for installation on the FPSOs Cidade de Marica and Cidade de Saquarema, owned by SBM Offshore. Elsewhere in 2015, ALE Heavy Lift was responsible for the weighing and loadout of a WHP jacket, topside and bridge, and a CPP jacket, in Johor, Malaysia. A very extensive project was also undertaken on behalf of Shell, in Johor, during which a 17,300-tonne topside first had to
Arrival of the Happy Star in the Netherlands, with on board a whole fleet of Damen workboats. (Photograph: PAS Publicaties)
be slid 85 metres on skids, and then raised over a height of 40 metres, using the Megajack system. Only then could the topside module be skidded and joined to the hull of the Malikai TLP. This super-lift operation was carried out in July. At the start of 2016, ALE completed the final module loadout for the Ichthys project, in Thailand. The heavy transport specialist was required to load out a total of 151 modules and pipe racks, weighing between 24 and 1,928 tonnes, on behalf of CUEL Limited n
PLENTY OF NEW SHIPS FOR DUTCH OFFSHORE SUPPORT VESSEL OPERATORS by Paul Schaap, PAS Publicaties
In 2015, the Dutch offshore support vessel operators have once again enlarged their fleet with a whole series of new ships. Fugro and Vroon Offshore Services led the way. The ships in question are state-of-the-art vessels, suitable for deployment worldwide on a whole range of specialist tasks. In March 2015, Fugro expanded its fleet with the addition of the geotechnical research vessel Fugro Scout, a sister vessel to the previously delivered Fugro Voyager, fabricated at the Malpe yard in India. Both are minidrill ships capable of extracting soil samples from the seabed at a depth of up to three kilometres. During the same month, the Thoma yard in Louisiana, America, handed over the Fugro Americas, a shallow draft survey vessel built specifically for deployment in the Gulf of
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Mexico, the Caribbean and the waters around North and South America. This was followed yet one month later by the handover of the Fugro Oceanus, a modular jack-up barge intended for deployment mainly in coastal waters in the Middle East. In November, a new ROV support vessel was added to the fleet. This vessel, built at the Wilson Sons yard in Brazil according to a design from Damen, was christened Fugro Aquarius and was equipped with a work-class ROV.