Fossil Energy – Johan Sverdrup
On Tuesday 8 March the fifth and final platform was installed at the Johan Sverdrup field by the world’s largest heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit.
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On Tuesday 8 March the fifth and final platform was installed at the Johan Sverdrup field by the world’s largest heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit.
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The Pioneering Spirit has successfully installed the Alpha high-voltage convertor platform for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore grid project in the North Sea, 20 km off the coast of The Hague on Sunday 26 December.
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The jacket for the Saint-Nazaire offshore substation has been successfully installed over the weekend.
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Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit has safely delivered another payload of a busy 2021 lift campaign, the new module for CNOOC International’s Buzzard Phase II development in the North Sea’s Outer Moray Firth, east of Scotland.
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A couple of days after single-lift removal of the Morecambe Bay topside from the Irish Sea for Spirit Energy, Pioneering Spirit of Allseas was in East Scotland to transfer the 5450 tonne structure to its cargo barge Iron Lady.
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On June 9 the Pioneering Spirit of Allseas successfully executed the single-lift removal of the former DP3 gas production topsides from Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay development in the East Irish Sea.
Thanks to her unique single-lift technology, she needed less than 90 minutes to connect to and lift the 5450 tonne topsides clean off its supporting jacket.
This follows the removal of the adjacent DP4 topsides and subsequent transport to the UK in April.
The vessel’s motion-compensated lift technology proved hugely effective in the shallow waters of Morecambe Bay, renowned for strong currents and challenging tidal conditions. For both the DP3 and DP4 operations, it was a matter of hours between arrival in the field and safe execution of the topsides’ lifts.
Pioneering Spirit will deliver the DP3 installation to a new disposal and recycling facility at the Fife Energy Park, Scotland, where it will be reunited with the 5400-tonne DP4 structure next week.
Allseas’ scope covers engineering, preparation, removal and disposal of two 11,000 tonne normally unmanned installations (NUMIs) and 1000 tonnes of connected subsea infrastructure.
The latter, including wellheads, pipelines and umbilicals, was removed by Allseas’ construction support vessel Oceanic in a complicated sequence of approximately 180 lifts.
Pioneering Spirit will return to Morecambe Bay to remove the DP3 and DP4 supporting jackets in 2023.
Operational since 2016, the DP3 and DP4 topsides removals for Spirit Energy is the vessel’s first heavy lift assignment outside the North Sea.
Still a relative newcomer to the offshore heavy lift market, Pioneering Spirit has already installed and removed over 200,000 tonnes of platform weight, moving the work onshore where it is safer and quicker.
Equipped with motion compensation technology and capable of lifting entire offshore structures up to 48,000 tonnes in just a few hours, Pioneering Spirit spends significantly less time in the field compared to conventional heavy lift barges, which results in drastically reduced emissions footprint.
The smallest and the largest vessel in Allseas’ fleet will work together on the installation of the 105-km long 36-inch Baltic Pipe in Danish waters.
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Allseas equipped the 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. [Read more…] about Pioneering Spirit equipped with second unique lift system (VIDEO)
The Pioneering Spirit has successfully completed her third and final decommissioning job of 2020, single-lift removal of the North Sea’s 14,200 t Ninian Northern topsides. [Read more…] about Allseas removes another ageing North Sea giant
Just a few hours ago The Pioneering Spirit completed the second major lift at Tyra West. [Read more…] about Second lift at Tyra West completed