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stream in 4Q this year. The contract included fabrication and installation of anchor piles, as well as pre-tensioning the anchors and bottom chains, and installing the mooring wires and top

North Sea

Dutch frms chains, using Jumbo’s heavylift vessel

Fairplayer.

Boskalis Offshore, part of Boskalis and traditionally a dredging business, eye growing markets has also been growing its capabilities,

New vessels, acquisitions, and the frm is aiming to become a go-to following the integration of fellow- contractor for combined transport Dutch frm Smit’s salvage business expertise are driving Dutch and installation projects, covering into the business last year, and the growth. reports.Elaine Maslin mooring spreads and subsea installa- purchase of marine-transport frm tion, including deepwater and arctic Dockwise Ltd., earlier this year. he Dutch offshore sector is projects, by combining its capabilities, Boskalis Director Bas van Bemmelen leveraging its engineering and says Michael Kahn, managing director says, “In my ideal world, we will seafaring traditions to grow of Jumbo. come to a point where, if you take

T its presence in the global oil and gas “We want to be doing more mooring a new export LNG terminal, we can industry. spreads and large subsea structures do everything from dredging the port

The sector—including some newer like templates and compression mod- to building quay walls and relevant entrants—is eying work in areas from ules at 2000-3000m water depth and infrastructure, as well as the modular subsea, including deepwater, to LNG; in new frontier areas like the Arctic,” transport, logistics, and integration of and from transport and installation to Kahn says. the LNG facilities.” operations in Arctic waters. “What we see in the market are more Boskalis Offshore would also be

A strong theme is diversifcation, foating production units being used, involved in offshore and or nearshore through acquisition and feet growth, instead of platforms, and feld devel- work to bring upstream products and as Dutch frms look to grow their opments in more remote locations, infrastructure, such as pipelines, into expertise and portfolios to offer full including the Arctic. Also, decommis- the terminal. package services. sioning is coming. These markets will

Boskalis is due to combine its

Jumbo, for example, has two grow.” current capabilities on a project

Finnish-Swedish, Ice Class 1A, Jumbo completed its frst contract for Shell, the Malampaya Phase 3

K-Class, heavylift vessels on order— as a full installation contractor earlier project, in the Philippines next year. one, the Jumbo Kinetic, being built at last month. This was for the mooring

This will see a jackup, depletion-

Brodosplit shipyard in Split, Croatia, installation, tow-out and hook-up of compression platform linked to an and scheduled for delivery last month EnQuest’s EnQuest Producer FPSO, existing platform on the Malampaya (August). which is due to bring the central gas feld. A new vessel, the Ndeavor,

With this, and the rest of its feet, North Sea Alma and Galia felds on is one of two new, multipurpose DP2

Heavylift vessel Fairplayer completed Jumbo’s frst contract as a full installation contractor.

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