Leviathan gas production platform in the Mediterranean Sea. As part of this project, the Thialf will first position the jacket. Later in the year, the brand-new semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir will be deployed to install the topside. Equipped with two 10,000-tonne Huisman cranes, the Sleipnir will be the largest semi-submersible crane vessel of her type, in the world. After completing the installation work in the Mediterranean, the Sleipnir will transfer to the Danish sector of the North Sea where she will be responsible for the transport and installation of a new production and living quarters platform for the Tyra Future project. The two large monohull crane vessels operated by Seaway Heavy Lifting, the Seaway Yudin and the Seaway Strashnov, were for their part heavily involved in installation work for the offshore wind energy sector in 2018. Others Royal Boskalis, for years an active player in the offshore industry, announced in May 2018 that the well-known names of its subsidiary companies Dockwise, VBMS and Fairmount were set to disappear. Instead, their activities
are to be integrated in the service portfolio for the offshore energy market under a single brand name, Boskalis. In October, Boskalis announced that it has been awarded the contract for the Tyra Development Subsea Installation Phase II by Total E&P Denmark. This extensive contract involves subsea engineering, procurement, production and installation activities. The aim of redeveloping the Tyra field is to extend its operational service life by 25 years. The vast majority of the work will be carried out by the large diving support vessel Boka Atlantis. At the start of 2019, Boskalis was awarded a further multiyear contract for subsea services in the Middle East. The US oil and gas company Anadarko has chosen a consortium consisting of Van Oord and Technip FMC as its preferred tenderer for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the offshore subsea system for its Mozambique LNG project. Throughout 2018, the Dutch contractors Boskalis, Van Oord and Tideway (now DEME Offshore) with their flexible fallpipe vessels were involved in a series of rock installation projects for the oil and gas industry and the offshore wind energy sector n
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Just as in the previous year, in 2018, market leader Dockwise once again succeeded in completing a series of ground-breaking heavy transport projects. Parent company Royal Boskalis Westminster, that took over Dockwise in 2013, decided in April 2018 to continue the activities of Dockwise under the brand name Boskalis. There was also news from the project cargo segment, where Dutch companies carried out a series of remarkable projects. Major players in this segment were BigLift Shipping and Jumbo Shipping. The name change from Dockwise to Boskalis also resulted in a rechristening of the flagship of the company, and also the largest heavy transport vessel in the world, the Dockwise Vanguard, to the Boka Vanguard. Once again in 2018, this remarkable vessel was responsible for a series of transport operations. In July, she set a new world record by transporting the 90,000-tonne semisubmersible oil production vessel P-67 from Qingdao in China to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The P-67 was due to be deployed for the production, storage and transhipment of oil from the Brazilian Lula field. Another impressive project successfully completed at the beginning of this year 20
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involved the transport of the massive topside of Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup processing platform. This behemoth, weighing 28,100 tonnes, was transported from South Korea to Norway. Another of the Boskalis heavy transport vessels, the Black Marlin, carried two topside modules each weighing around 10,000 tonnes from South Korea to Norway, as part of Equinor’s Martin Linge project. For its part, Boskalis organised the transport of a total of 36 steel jackets, each weighing 1,000 tonnes, from the Lamprell yard in Jebel Ali to the BOW terminal in Flushing. This work was undertaken by two heavy transport vessels including the Mighty Servant 1. In Flushing, the jackets
