Member News Bezemers Winches Involved in Positioning Maasdeltatunnel Winch supplier, Bezemer, supplied six linear winches, capable of providing a total of 3300 metric tonnes of pulling force to work simultaneously on one project, the positioning of the second tunnel element of the Maasdeltatunnel. This tunnel crosses the river Scheur, creating a new river crossing in the Rotterdam region and improving accessibility. The tunnel element consists of two tubes with three lanes each and has a total length of 205 m and a weight of 56,000 tons. To control this volume and weight in the currents of the river, six linear winches were utilised, with pulling capacities
estimated at 200 trillion cubic feet of rich raw gas, which
varying from 400 to 800 tonnes.
will also provide a valuable feedstock for the petrochemical industries. The development signed in September 2023 is scheduled to be completed in January 2027. The design supports the expansion of the gas surface facilities to process fractionated products and along 452 km pipeline from 42” to 8”. These include eight pipelines to transfer sales gas and other products comprising feedstocks; C2+NGL and sales gas supply. The major challenges are related to the construction of pipelines for associated and fractionated products from the new grassroot RNGL facility to existing terminals at Jubail and disposition into Arab light crude oil; and, propane and butane to Juaymah NGL and natural gasoline (NG A-180) to Ras Tanura. Ethane will be transferred to Jubail Interface-II and pentane plus colored bodies will be injected into the AL crude oil pipeline: JT-1 Qatif GOSP-1.
The element had to be positioned between the already submerged 1st element and the entrance ramp on the north accurately to the centimetre. Once in this position, the
DENSO’s New Addition to Range of Corrosion Protection Systems
tunnel element was gradually submerged by pumping water
Under the brand name, FORTIDE®, DENSO Group Germany
into its ballast tanks. The winches continuously made small
is expanding its range of corrosion protection systems to
adjustments to the element’s position until it was perfectly
include high-performance epoxy coatings. To meet the
aligned. The project shows the versatile deployment of
diverse, ever-increasing demands of pipeline construction,
Bezemer’s linear winches, which are often used for offshore
FORTIDE® offers durable corrosion protection for a wide
side. This means that the 205 m element should be placed
work but are also very suitable for various applications in infrastructural projects. The Maasdeltatunnel will open at the end of 2024.
Bin Quraya Awarded Construction of Jafurah Downstream Pipeline Phase II Bin Quraya Co. Ltd has been awarded the LSTK contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the Jafurah Development Programme Phase II in Saudi Arabia, including infrastructure facilities as a part of a programme to increase the gas capacity to 3.2 BSCFD for the in-Kingdom energy growing demands. Jafurah is the largest unconventional non-associated gas field in the Kingdom, with a volume
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