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Passing the test

Pioneering Spirit, loaded with Yme.

Photos from Allseas.

on 23 July. During harbor lifting tri- als, the 12 beams together lifted over 44,000-tonne.

Following the lifting trials, the vessel performed a test lift, using a 5500-tonne test platform topsides on a substructure in the K-13 ? eld offshore Netherlands on 7 August.

Once it delivers the Yme platform to

Lutelandet, Pioneering Spirit will return

Allseas’ mega-vessel Pioneering Spirit gets into to Rotterdam where the remaining four position to remove Yme’s topsides in late August. topsides lifting beams will be installed ahead of the Shell Brent Delta topsides utch heavy weight Allseas has thought could be realized since its cre- removal, scheduled for summer 2017.

marked its biggest milestone ation in 1987, was built in South Korea. Allseas is also contracted to lift the

D yet. As OE went to press, the Installation of its lifting beams was car- other three Brent topsides, at dates yet to ? rm announced that its mega-vessel, the ried out at its berth at the Maasvlakte, be decided, as well as installing Statoil’s

US$2.7 billion Pioneering Spirit, had suc- near the mouth of Rotterdam harbor. Johan Sverdrup topsides, offshore cessfully completed its ? rst commercial Pioneering Spirit was due to start its Norway. job, lifting Repsol Norge’s 13,500-tonne working life in summer 2015, but com-

FURTHER READING

Yme mobile offshore production unit, missioning the lifting arms has taken 100km offshore Norway, on 22 August. longer than expected, due to their com-

Take a virtual photo tour

The Yme facility was then due to be plexity (see page 20 for more). of the Pioneering Spirit: taken to the newly developed disman- A test program was carried out in http://bit.ly/2aZbGgv tling yard in Lutelandet, Norway. Alexia harbor, Rotterdam, at the end

Pioneering Spirit is 382m-long and of July. All 12 installed topsides lifting 124m-wide and was built to lift up beams were tested to their respective lift

Watch videos of the to 48,000-tonne topsides and up to capacities of nearly 3700-tonn e. The last 7 August sailaway: 25,000-tonne jackets, as well as perform of the four tests, involving four beams http://bit.ly/2blFs3R pipelay work. The vessel, a concept few lifting 14,700-tonne, was performed

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