In pictures: Pioneering Spirit removes offshore platform from Brent field
Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed its first decommissioning job of this summer, the single-lift removal of Shell UK’s Brent Alpha platform from the North Sea. Removing the 17,000-tonne topsides took less than...Read more
Allseas at work on its first offshore job in China
Allseas’ pipelayer Audacia and support vessel Calamity Jane have started work on the deep-water Lingshui 17-2 gas field development in the South China Sea. It is the offshore contractor’s very first job in China. During the...Read more
Offshore contractor Allseas to significantly cut crew headcount
Offshore contractor Allseas will reduce its workforce by a few hundred in the course of 2020, which will mostly impact its vessels’ crews. The company says it is forced to do so due to the...Read more
Drone delivers package to world’s largest ship Pioneering Spirit
A Dutch first has taken place in the port of Rotterdam: the aerial delivery by drone of a parts consignment to Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit. The biggest vessel in the world is currently moored at Alexiahaven...Read more
Allseas’ giant offshore vessels meet in Rotterdam for the first time
For the first time ever, the world’s two largest pipelay vessels Solitaire and Pioneering Spirit are together in Rotterdam. Both vessels are owned by Allseas. The Solitaire arrived in Rotterdam after completing work for Equinor’s...Read more
Pioneering Spirit to remove platforms and jackets in North Sea
Allseas’s heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit will return to the Valhall area in the Norwegian North Sea to remove three complete platforms and two jackets. The projects will be carried out between 2021 and 2026. The...Read more
Allseas acquires drill ship for deepsea mining
Allseas has acquired the former ultra-deepwater drill ship Vitoria 10000 for conversion to a polymetallic nodule collection vessel. Together with DeepGreen Metals, Allseas is developing a deepsea mineral collection system. ‘We will develop all the...Read more