Load-out of the two Culzean jackets at the Heerema yard in Flushing. (Photograph: PAS Publicaties/maritimephoto.com)
TOP-DRAW PERFORMANCES BY DUTCH SUPPLIERS by Paul Schaap, PAS Publicaties
Recession or no recession, the Dutch suppliers to the offshore wind energy, dredging and oil and gas sector have repeatedly succeeded in developing top-draw products and delivering topflight performances. Several hundred companies including yards, shipping operators, soil surveyors and design firms have successfully delivered tailor-made solutions for the entire nautical sector. An overview. Although operating in a difficult market the Dutch offshore construction yards once again succeeded in handing over a number of platforms in 2017, as well as winning a series of new fabrication orders. Much of this work was undertaken by the various yards of the Heerema Fabrication Group. For example, the Heerema yard in Zwijndrecht completed the jacket and topside module for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project for Statoil in June 2017. Both platform parts, with a total weight of 4,400 tonnes, were subsequently installed in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, by Heerema Marine Contractor’s semi-submersible crane vessel Hermod. During the same 32
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period, the Heerema yard in Flushing watched the sailaway of the jackets for the Culzean utility and living quarters platform and the central processing facility platform, weighing 6,800 and 8,000 tonnes respectively. Both structures were built on the basis of so-called EPC contracts. Shortly after fabrication was started at the yard in Flushing of the 135 metre-high eight-leg jacket weighing 9300 tonnes and 12 piles for the Peregrino 2 project currently being undertaken by Statoil, off the coast of Brazil. This giant jacket is due to be handed over in October 2019. Other new orders for the Heerema Fabrication Group include the fabrication of a transformer
