Allseas is equipping its mega heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit with a second unique lift system. It is capable of removing and installing complete offshore jackets weighing up to 20,000 tonnes in one go. After...Read more
Equinor has chosen Heerema Marine Contractors for the removal, dismantling, and recycling of three offshore installations from the Heimdal and Veslefrikk fields in the northern part of the North Sea. The infrastructures to be removed...Read more
During last summer, Allseas sent its mega heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit into the Danish part of the North Sea for a platform removal campaign. In total, 27,000 tonnes of steel were removed. Allseas has...Read more
After eighteen months of production at sites around the globe, the unique jacket lift system is beginning to take shape on board the world’s largest ship, the Pioneering Spirit. Assembly is in full flow, with...Read more
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, the largest vessel in the world, will travel to the Irish Sea this year to remove two normally unmanned installations in the East Irish Sea. The 11,000-tonne platforms owned by Spirit Energy...Read more
Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed its third and final decommissioning job of 2020. The single-lift removal of the North Sea’s 14,200-tonne Ninian Northern topsides for CNR International (CNRI) took two hours to...Read more
John Lawrie Metals, a metal waste recycling and processing company in Aberdeen, has completed decommissioning of general cargo vessel Kaami in partnership with Kishorn Port Limited. The project involved the downsizing and recycling of the...Read more
Heerema’s semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has removed the 8100-metric-tonne Jotun-B jacket in the Norwegian North Sea for Vår Energi. During this project, skirt piles with diameters of 2.7 metres and 80 millimetres wall thickness were...Read more
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
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
Maersk Supply Service has been awarded a contract by Fairfield Betula Limited for the removal of the Dunlin Alpha platform’s subsea conductors and guide frames.
Maersk Supply Service will remove four 30 feet jacket-mounted drilling conductors...Read more
With few profitable investment opportunities left as a result of the coronavirus, oil companies will likely increase their spending on decommissioning contracts. Global projects through 2024 could reach a value of 42 billion dollars, say...Read more
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
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
The world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has arrived in the Port of Rotterdam for the first time. Kolga, Heerema’s newly upgraded tug, joined Sleipnir at sea to guide the vessel into the Caland Canal.
They...Read more
The world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir will arrive in the Port of Rotterdam for the first time on Saturday, March 21. Since its delivery to Heerema in July 2019, the vessel has been busy...Read more
Allseas’ record-breaking construction vessel Pioneering Spirit will soon be able to remove and install jackets weighing up to 20,000 tonnes in a single lift. Systems and parts of the new Jacket Lift System are taking...Read more
Repsol Norge AS is planning the removal of the Repsol Gyda platform in the Norwegian North Sea. Because the jacket cannot sustain loading in a horizontal position during transport, Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit will transport it...Read more
