May 222013
 

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Scheuerle SPMTs move 12,000-tonne Statoil platform segment “Gudrun” from fabrication hall to barge for Aibel

SCHEUERLE Self Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMTs) set standards worldwide. The southern German companies vehicles are continually involved in outstanding transports, made possible by outstanding people operating premium equipment. Mammoet Europe, one of the TII Group´s biggest customers, has transported more than ten loads of 10,000 tonnes in the first half of 2013.

From fabrication site to barge on 432 axles – safely and efficiently transported with SCHEUERLE SPMTs

From fabrication site to barge on 432 axles – safely and efficiently transported with SCHEUERLE SPMTs

10,000 tonnes of mounted structure – for anyone involved in construction, as well as those who are not, can easily imagine that delays in transportation or damage to the freight cannot be tolerated under any circumstances.

Thus, Mammoet Norway has been relying on SCHEUERLE SPMTs for a long time when it comes to ultra heavy transportation. In this case, the freight is part of a precisely orchestrated project, the Statoils “Gudrun” platform which is a fixed processing platform supported by a 7,400 t steel jacket. Aibel Haugesund, one of Mammoet Norway´s customers, is due to deliver the completed deck from its yard in Haugesund in July 2013 – a schedule calling for precise planning and reliable partners.

Aibel made an important step towards achieving this goal, supported by Mammoet and Scheuerle SPMTs. Here, 432 axles, each with a load of up to 48 tonnes, were employed. Operating with SCHEUERLE modular transporters in combination with electronic control technology developed by SCHEUERLE allows absolutely precise positioning of heavy loads. The individual modular transporters can be coupled as desired, mechanically or in an open compound within an area of 1,000 m x 1,000 m. The SCHEUERLE control technology ensures synchronous steering of all transporter units integrated in the compound. The electronic multi-mode steering makes the modular transporter very flexible and maneuverable.

Continue reading “Scheuerle SPMTs move 12,000-tonne Statoil platform segment “Gudrun” from fabrication hall to barge for Aibel” »

May 182013
 

Years in the planning and now becoming a reality, the world’s first FLNG facility is under construction. Meet the team working on Prelude FLNG as they take you behind the scenes at this mega project.

Meet the people behind the world's first FLNG project

May 172013
 

Below a series of pictures of the loading of G87 Gamesa wind turbine blades to be transported from the port of Alexandria to the job site.

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Brand new Faymonville extendable trailers are part of Egytrans fleet. Extension up to 49.7 m with a payload of 44.2 ton!!

Brand new Faymonville extendable trailers are part of Egytrans fleet. Extension up to 49.7 m with a payload of 44.2 ton!!

Continue reading “Gamesa Wind Turbine blades transported by EGYTRANS/ETAL in Egypt” »

May 172013
 

How is the Barcelona Metro constructed?? Herrenknecht tunneling video, demonstrating tunnel boring machine operation.

Tunnel depth varies between 40 and 130 feet beneath the street surface, depending on the location.

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The deepest portion will be where it passes under the Stockton Tunnel. It can push forward five feet at a time, up to fifty feet a day, depending on soil conditions. Continue reading “TBM/Tunneling boring Video animation: German Ingenuity!!” »

May 052013
 

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Last week Jumbo successfully completed the deployment of five subsea structures for PetroSA’s Ikhwezi project, offshore South Africa. The installation of the five structures, weighing between 35 and 185t and measure up to 14 x 8 x 5.5 m, was executed by Jumbo’s DP2 Heavy Lift Vessel Fairplayer. The project was awarded on an intervention basis and Jumbo once again proved its flexibility and ‘can do’ mentality.

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The Ikhwezi project is a subsea development that ties into the FA-platform and is set to play an instrumental role in sustaining the life of PetroSA’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) refinery in Mossel Bay, Republic South Africa. It involves tapping into gas reserves in the FO field, which is located 40km south-east of PetroSA’s F-A production platform off South Africa’s south coast.

Scope of work

Because the project was awarded on an intervention basis Jumbo had very limited time to complete the preparations. The structures had to be installed before the beginning of the winter in South Africa. The weather and sea states off the coast are known to become very hostile in the winter period. The Fairplayer was mobilised in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), e.g. taking Jumbo’s offshore accommodation unit onboard and preparing its Deepwater Deployment System (DDS).

Lift, ship, install. All in one go

The Ikhwezi subsea installation project confirms Jumbo added-value concept of providing a single solution for loading, transporting and installing subsea structures in water depths up to 3,000m.

Continue reading “Jumbo installed five structures for Ikhwezi project, South Africa” »

Apr 292013
 

A high precision Enerpac SyncHoist system has been successfully deployed by heavy lift and transport specialists Universal Cranes to ensure optimum accuracy and safety in the hoisting and positioning of key components of one of the largest ships ever built for the Royal Australian Navy.

Enerpac 01 119-29-04-2013The Enerpac System – deployed by Universal Cranes for the Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD) vessel project under way at Williamstown, Victoria – is being introduced to Australasia to enhance crane performance and safety in diverse heavy lift projects including construction, engineering, hydraulics, mining and energy, oil and gas, manufacturing and metal fabrication, shipbuilding and safety.

Universal Cranes integrated the system with a 600 tonne crawler crane as part of the project management and engineering for the consolidation of steel blocks of between 164-300 tonnes on the deck of the first of the (LHD) vessels being built by BAE Systems Australia.

The four steel blocks, with variable centres of gravity, will become the operating control towers on the flight deck of the Canberra class LHD, one of two 28,000 tonne LHD vessels that will come into service in 2014 (HMAS Canberra) and 2015 (HMAS Adelaide) respectively. Continue reading “Australian Navy’s New LHD Takes Shape” »

Apr 242013
 

Last weekend Sea Truck’s DP3 installation vessel JASCON 25 loaded 2 units in Tj Langsat to be installed later at the FPSO KIKEH offshore Labuan

The 118 mtr long and 30.4 mtr width JASCON 25 is a pipelay construction vessel built according to the Group’s hybrid design philosophy featuring DP3, a large unobstructed main deck, a big crane, rigid/flexible pipelay capability and large scale offshore accommodation capacity, total is installed a power of 11.280 kW to drive the 7 installed thrusters.Jascon25114-24-04-2013

After checking the units Capt. Jelle de Vries accepted the units on behalf of Murphy oil for loading and signed the documents

After checking the units Capt. Jelle de Vries accepted the units on behalf of Murphy oil for loading and signed the documents

The Feb 2009 delivered JASCON 25 is equipped with a Huisman 800 mTon @ 30 m over the stern in sheltered waters and revolving at a radius of 26 m. Continue reading “JASCON 25 LOADING IN TJ LANGSAT (Johor) Malaysia” »

Apr 032013
 

Yew Choon of Singapore  has been awarded a prestigious contract of transporting all major heavy and oversized components for the Hongsha Power Station in Laos.

The first phase has almost been completed successfully and involved a.o. the loading of a 310 tons Stator in a purposely built RoRo barge, in order to transport the 310 tons Stator from the Port of Laem Chabang as far north as possible in Thailand.

Cargo weight : 310 Tons
Total weight: 406 Ton
Dimensions:  10.7 x 4.0 x 4.38m
Trailer configuration: 1 ½  16 axle lines self propelled with 2 power packs.
Driven axles lines used: 10
Driven axles lines  available: 13
Max. outside temperature: 35 degrees
Max slope uphill:  11.5 degree ( 20.5% )
Max slope downhill:  8 degree ( 14% )
Travel distance from Yew Choon yard Thung Chang to Thai – Laos Border: 35 km.

Duration: 2 days

A newly built drive-in pontoon, enabled passing underneath the low bridges across the rivers in Thailand

A newly built drive-in pontoon, enabled passing underneath the low bridges across the rivers in Thailand

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Roll-out of Drive-in Pontoon Siam Yew Choon 1

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From there on, the heavy transport went over land and had to cross over a number (9-10) long bridges. A special method was engineered, in which part of the load on the Hydraulic Platform trailer was placed on large skid beams. In this way the long bridges were safely crossed. See pictures below:

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Continue reading “310 Tons generator in North Thailand from Thung Chang to Thai – Laos Border” »

Apr 012013
 

One of the world’s largest cranes, the Zoomlion D5200 tower crane, has been used for the second time, for the construction of the Yingwuzhou River Bridge in Wuhan, China. The bridge is the first over the river Yangtze and has a total length of 7.8km.

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The D5200 was specially developed for lifting huge prefabricated elements on the Maanshan Yangtze river bridge project in 2010. For the Yingwuzhou job the crane was required to lift the largest segments, which weighed around 200t. Other sections were put in place using a 1000t-floating crane. Continue reading “Zoomlion D5200 tower crane completes second job” »

Mar 312013
 

The self propelledjack up SEAJACKS ZARATAN installed her 60th monopile at the Meerwind offshore wind farm, it was the third monopile installed in three days.

Blair Ainslie, CEO of Seajacks said: “We’re pleased with the progress that’s been made over the winter months. Our crews and construction teams are operating effectively and efficiently, having installed 6 monopiles in 8 days during periods of stable weather.

The self propelledjack up SEAJACKS ZARATAN installed her 60th monopile

The self propelledjack up SEAJACKS ZARATAN installed her 60th monopile

As a result of this good work, Zaratan is still scheduled to start turbine installation in May, despite having encountered significantly more adverse weather than anticipated in the original schedules.”

Leviathan continues to make solid progress with TP installation, though a consistently low air temperature has impacted progress.

Blair added “Over the winter months, consistently low temperatures has impacted progress with the TP’s, but because we have a strategy of utilising separate vessels for installation of transition pieces this will not materially impact start-up of WTG installation.  Continue reading “SEAJACKS ZARATAN INSTALLED 60TH MONOPILE” »

Mar 182013
 

Richard Krabbendam (Heavy Lift Specialist) presents this week his “Heavy Transport & Lifting” Seminar at the Fujian Huisman Steel Manufacturing Company in Xiamen, China.

Richard L.Krabbendam (Heavy Lift Specialist) in front of the Skyhook dock crane of the Huisman Facilities in Xiamen, China

Richard L.Krabbendam (Heavy Lift Specialist) in front of the Skyhook dock crane of the Huisman Facilities in Xiamen, China

This 2400 Tons dock crane is located at the 380 m long quay wall of the Huisman yard of the Zhaoyin port area of Xiamen, China.  The water depth (berth pocket) is -14.5 m; water depth turning area :-12 m.

The Huisman Group attending the Heavy Transport & Lifting Seminar at Fujian Huisman Steel Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

The Huisman Group attending the Heavy Transport & Lifting Seminar at Fujian Huisman Steel Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Continue reading “Heavy Lift Specialist visit at Fujian Huisman Steel Manufacturing Co., Xiamen, China” »

Mar 122013
 

Till some time ago, Transport of Heavy and Super Heavy Lifts from Larsen & Toubro’s Hazira Yard in Gujarat used to entail using Barges since the Heavy lift vessels could not dock directly at L&T’s Jetty due to draft issues.

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The Heavy Lifts needed to be Rolled onto low draft Barges at L&T’s Ro-Ro Jetty and then Barged to Hazira outer anchorage or Mumbai Port where the Heavy Lift vessels would load them using their own derricks (Cranes).

However, with the opening of a proper Port first by Essar Bulk terminal and then by Adani Group close to L&T’s manufacturing facility at Hazira, the export and transport of Heavy Lifts from L&T has become much simpler. Adani Port offers deep draft open Port at a distance of about 10.5 kms from L&T’s yard. The State of art facility offers direct berthing to Heavy Lifts vessels eliminating the need of Barging.

For an export shipment that is finally destined for Surinam’s State owned Refining company,         M/s Staastsoil for its Tout Lui Faut Refinery in Paramaribo, Suriname, L&T fabricated 2 Heavy Lifts – a Reactor measuring 50m x 8.6m x 5.3m, weighing 805MT and a Vaccum Column measuring 42.5m x 7.35m x 7.3m and weighing 158MT. Continue reading “FREIGHT WINGS PERFORMS HEAVIEST TRANSPORT EVER AT ADANI, HAZIRA PORT” »

Mar 092013
 
Heavy Lift Shipment & Transport Azito Power Station Ghana

Project documentary of Heavy Lift Shipments & Transports for the Azito Power Sation in Ghana. Continue reading “Heavy Lift Shipment & Transport Azito Power Station Ghana” »

Mar 092013
 
ABB Sengkang Power Station Sulawesi Heavy transport

A video showing how heavy Gasturbines ( tons) and Generators (135 Tons) were transported into the inlands of Sulawesi, via a barge landing in the river close to the job site. Continue reading “Barging of ABB Sengkang Power Station equipment to Sulawesi, Indonesia” »