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Analysis

Oceangoing giants

One of

Pioneering Spirit’s engine rooms.

Photos from Allseas.

Rotterdam was home to three giants of the sea after Allseas founder Edward Heerema’s father.

At 382m-long, the Pioneering Spirit is close in length to the in early March – ofshore industry fagships, not world’s largest container ship, the 400m-long CSCL Globe. least Allseas’ newly renamed . Pioneering Spirit

However, at 124m-wide, to enable its topsides lifting function- ality, the twin-hull Pioneering Spirit is more than double the

Elaine Maslin took a tour.

CSCL’s 58.6m width. otterdam is used to large vessels. One of the largest The vessel’s inauguration in Rotterdam, late February, marked ports in the world, it is regularly home to the world’s the culmination of nearly three decades’ work. The icing on the

R largest container ships. cake was a three-platform lifting contract with Statoil on the

However, even they have been challenged in scale by Johan Sverdrup development, signed the night before the inau-

Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, previously named Pieter Schelte, guration and announced on the day by Allseas’ founder Edward of only two vessels in the world in her class

Lewek Constellation The has an Lewek Constellation achieving the highest environmental and 800-tonne Huisman multi-lay system,

Meanwhile, on 1 March, EMAS AMC ofcially comfort notations, with an ice-classed hull including a tower which can tilt from christened and named its fagship, the capable of transiting through 0.8m of ice, plus 60° to 90°, able to support both rigid

Lewek Constellation, prior to her departure an advanced DP3 system. and non-rigid pipelines, a 3000-tonne to the Gulf of Mexico to start work for Noble

Huisman ofshore heavy

Energy.

lift crane at the stern of

The , an

Lewek Constellation the vessel, two Schilling ice-classed, multi-lay ofshore workclass remotely oper- construction vessel with ultra-deep water pipe laying ated vehicles (WROVs) and heavy lift capabilities was and a portable reel system initially conceptualized in 2009 which reduces mobiliza- and her hull launched in 2012 tion time.

( ). The portable reel sys-

OE: May 2013 tem, which uses a spooling

The 178.27m-long, 46m-wide barge to transfer reeled vessel is designed to deliver product to the vessel on, complex projects in more than allows the vessel to work 3000m water depth. According in feld, or in close vicinity, to EMAS AMC, the vessel is one taking reeling operations

EMAS AMC’s Lewek of the critical path. •

Photo by OE staf.

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