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The Gina Krog by adding more structural work. The jacket roll up 13m-high, 500-tonne topside will measure 31x25m. The 1000-tonne jacket will be 49m-high.

Some nodes for the project may be built at HFG Polska’s facility at Opole, which is currently building some conductor guides for the Maersk North Sea Culzean project.

It is also working on a structural frame for HFG’s new innovation center, which will sit adjacent to the fabrication yard in

Zwijndrecht, and will be operational by

October.

In June, HFG’s Vlissingen yard saw the departure of the launch jacket for Statoil’s

Gina Krog ? eld (pictured right), which, at 17,000-tonne, is the largest jacket ever built by the yard. HFG invested in three skid beams for Vlissingen to accommo- date both Gina Krog and the 8000-tonne

DONG Hejre jacket, delivered last year.

Van Brouwershaven says the roll-up of the sides of the Gina Krog jacket – planned 45 weeks in advance – was a special moment.

Engineering for the project was carried out in-house.

In November, the 2000-tonne jacket and piles for Marathon Oil’s Alba B3 compres- sion platform are due to leave Vlissingen, along with the 4500-tonne topsides cur- rently under construction at Zwijndrecht, with installation by the o