World's Biggest Crane Ship Pieter Schelte Sets Sail For Rott
Pioneering Spirit (formerly Pieter Schelte) is a catamaran crane vessel owned by the Switzerland -based Allseas Group designed for the single-lift installation and removal of large oil and gas platforms and the installation of record-weight pipelines.
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Offshore staff. ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands -Allseas has announced the renaming of the Pieter Schelteto Pioneering Spirit. In making the change, Allseas said the new name reflects the vessel's technological step forward inplatform installation and decommissioning.. In addition to installing oil platforms and laying pipelines, it is equipped with a "topsides lift system" (TLS) that has a.
World's Biggest Crane Ship Pieter Schelte Sets Sail For Rott
Originally christened as Pieter Schelte, the vessel was renamed Pioneering Spirit in February 2015. Pioneering Spirit entered service in 2016 with the deployment at Talisman's Yme platform in the Norwegian North Sea.
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Among other things, 65-m (213-ft) support beams will be fitted to the ship. Including this work, the Port Authority of Rotterdam estimated the spin-off of total construction of Pieter Schelte for Dutch business at €700 million (more than $800 million) and involved 440 different Dutch companies.
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The Pieter Schelte, which left South Korea on Wednesday, is due to arrive at the port for completion in December. The vessel is 124m (407ft) wide and 382m (1,253ft) long - as long as the.
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The Pieter Schelte, a unique and massive catamaran-like vessel built to remove decommissioned oil platforms from the North Sea, is the brainchild of Allseas' founder Edward Hereema who named the.
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The world's largest crane ship, the Pieter Schelte, can remove abandoned oil rigs in days, a significant improvement when compared to existing processes, whi.
15 Amazing Aerial Photos of 'Pieter Schelte' in Rotterdam
The newest Allseas vessel, Pieter Schelte, is a huge ship, composed of two super-tanker hulls connected by a wide central work platform or slot, much like a catamaran. It will be able to remove.
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The Pioneering Spirit is the world's largest vessel in terms of gross tonnage, and has a 2,000-ton pipelay tension capacity, 25,000-ton jacket lift capacity, and a 48,000-ton topside lift.
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The vessel was originally named Pieter Schelte after offshore heavy lifting pioneer Pieter Schelte Heerema (1908-81), the father of Allseas' founder Edward Hereema, but the vessel was.
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547 Leaders of Jewish communities and Holocaust memorial groups in Britain and the Netherlands have reacted with rage and despair at the arrival in Rotterdam of the world's biggest ship, the.
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Fri 6 Feb 2015 13.46 EST After protests by Jewish groups, a Dutch-Swiss maritime engineering company has announced it will change the name of a giant ship that had been christened after a.
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The Pieter Schelte is more than 1,200 feet long, 400 feet wide, and turns a months-long job into one that can be done in days. Offshore oil platforms face an existential crisis similar to the rest.
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Pioneering Spirit (formerly Pieter Schelte) is the largest construction vessel in the world. Inspired by the offshore heavy lifting pioneer Pieter Schelte Heerema (1908-81) and designed completely in-house, the vessel is designed for the single-lift installation and removal of large oil and gas platforms and the installation of record-weight pipelines.
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The Dutch owner of a ship named after his Nazi war criminal father, a vessel that Royal Dutch Shell is planning to use to decommission the North Sea's Brent oilfield, has bowed to pressure and.
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The Pieter Schelte, one of the largest ships in the world, ports in Rotterdam, January 8, 2015. (screen capture: AFP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch ship that sparked controversy because it.