The day after Good Friday – Saturday, April 3 – was a good day for DeepGreen Metals, the company that plans to mine polymetallic nodules from the deep abyssal plain ..
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World’s Biggest Construction Vessel ‘Pioneering Spirit’ Installs Unique Lift Systems
Allseas is equipping Pioneering Spirit with a second unique lift system capable of removing and installing complete offshore jackets weighing up to 20,000 t in one go. After several months of installation works, the sheer size of the “Jacket lift system” (JLS) is becoming apparent!
Recent activities have focused on the “hang-off and upend system” (HOUS), the function of which is to raise and tilt the 170-m lifting beams. The HOUS comprises integrated upend systems, each with a pair of 50-m skid...
Giant Pioneering Spirit vessel gets second lift system
Allseas has equipped its Pioneering Spirit vessel with a second lift system capable of removing and installing complete jackets in one go. The post Giant Pioneering Spirit vessel gets second lift…
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Allseas-Backed EV Battery Developer DeepGreen to Go Public via $2.9 Billion SPAC Deal
March 4 (Reuters) – DeepGreen Metals, an EV battery metals maker, said on Thursday that it will be acquired by blank-check firm Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp in a $2.9 billion…
Work Boat World Offshore Projects Roundup – January 22, 2021
The latest series of recently announced offshore energy projects around the world covers an assortment that includes installation, decommissioning, drilling, and IMR, ..
COLUMN | Quick Updates: BP, Equinor, Edda, Wilhelmsen, Hornbeck, MAGE and Sevnor [Offshore Accounts]
For the last three weeks we have been distracted by the mania for offshore wind (here, here and here). So, too has BP’s visionary CEO Bernard Looney. He has announced ..
Allseas completes topside removal scope for Total’s Tyra development
Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed a successful removal campaign covering processing and accommodation topsides and flare jackets at Total ..
Photos: World’s Largest Vessel ‘Pioneering Spirit’ Removes Third Platform From Brent Field
Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed its first decommissioning job of this summer, the single-lift removal of Shell U.K. Limited’s Brent Alpha platform from the North Sea.
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Several years of planning and 15 months of offshore preparation, including strengthening and cutting the steel jacket’s six legs, culminated in the 9-second “fast lift” of the 17,000-t topsides in the evening of 21 June 2020.
Pioneering Spirit will now deliver the 44-year old...
Allseas to Convert Drillship to Deep-Sea Metals Collection Vessel
A former Petrobras drillship will be repurposed to harvest deep-sea metals needed to unlock the full potential of electric-powered vehicles and other ‘green’ technologies. Swiss-based Allseas announced Monday it has acquired the former ultra-deepwater drillship Vitoria 10000 for conversion to a...
Allseas Awarded Contract To Remove 48,000 t Statfjord A Platform
Equinor Energy on behalf of the Statfjord A Unit has awarded Allseas a contract for the removal, transfer,load-in to shore and disposal of the 48,000 t Statfjord A platform topsides. Allseas’ record-breaking heavy lift and pipelay vessel “Pioneering Spirit” will remove the topsides from its concrete gravity-based substructure in one piece after 2022.
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One of the largest platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf, Statfjord A stands in 149 m (490 ft) of water in the...