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04 | Huisman cherishes clients
Huisman, the ambitious Dutch specialists in lifting,
drilling and subsea solutions recognise the fact that
bringing down the costs of exploration and production
is crucial these days. Thanks to its constantly innovative
approach Huisman proves to be capable of delivering
yet another series of innovative ideas.
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Welcome to the IRO Holland Pavilion
Known for
our innovative
character
As Managing Director of IRO - The Association
of Dutch Suppliers in the Oil and Gas Industry,
I am proud to present you the latest edition of
Offshore Holland!
In this edition of Offshore Holland
you can read all about the
products, expertise and high profile
technological developments of
leading IRO member companies such
as Airborne, BigLift, Breman, DCN,
Heerema, Huisman, Iv, Merford,
Keppel, Tideway and Vryhof.
For the suppliers in the oil and gas
industry it is clearly felt that our
industry has ended up in another
fairway. Changing market conditions
due to the low oil price are
experienced in different ways.
For some order books are drying
up quickly, for others there are
additional opportunities and there
is growth. The influences on the
price are numerous, from shrinking
inventories to geopolitical
uncertainty and technological
developments in our key market areas.
The Netherlands remains a country
with a very strong export position
and this surely counts for the Dutch
supplier’s industry. This is partly
also because many companies in
the (offshore) oil and gas are
internationally oriented.
The Dutch offshore industry is
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prominent in the field of design and
exploration and is known for its
innovative character, high efficiency
and professionalism. Although many
major oil and gas companies reduce
their exploration activities and
suppliers see their project portfolios
decreased, there are still opportunities
in the North Sea for the smaller
companies. They are able to maintain
oil and gas production longer at
a high level and (cost) efficiently
by means of alternative production
methods. With innovative solutions
and cooperation they are able to
reduce operational costs. Activities
for decommissioning infrastructure
and installing offshore wind farms
will become more important and
Dutch companies are prominent
players with their highly specialised
equipment and expertise in this field.
In order to promote the interests
of the Dutch suppliers abroad,
IRO participates in trade missions
in cooperation with embassies
and organises Dutch pavilions
at all major international oil
and gas exhibitions. Upcoming
exhibitions in 2016 where you can
meet the Dutch suppliers displaying
their products and services, are the
Offshore Technology Conference
in Houston, USA (May), ONS in
Stavanger, Norway (August), Rio Oil
& Gas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (October),
ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi (November)
and OSEA in Singapore (December).
You can also have a look at the
Netherlands Oil & Gas Catalogue
if you want to know more about
the Dutch suppliers. The catalogue is
distributed at the Holland Pavilions
at (international) exhibitions, trade
missions and seminars and can also
be found online at www.iro-noc.nl.
For up-to-date information on
where and when to meet the Dutch
suppliers at export promotional
events, have a look at www.iro.nl.
I wish you all a pleasant reading
of the latest edition of Offshore
Holland and lots of good experiences
with the Dutch suppliers in this
dynamic industry!
Yours sincerely,
Sander Vergroesen, Managing Director
IRO - The Association of Dutch
Suppliers in the Oil and Gas Industry
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2016
2-5 May
Offshore Technology Conference
Houston, USA
29 August - 1 September
ONS Norway
Stavanger, Norway
24-27 October
Rio Oil & Gas
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
7-10 November
ADIPEC
Abu Dhabi, UAE
29 November-2 December
Offshore South East Asia
Singapore
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Huisman cherishes its clients
Our problem-solving
abilities are broadly
appreciated
Huisman Test Tower.
Since July 2014, prices for crude oil have slumped from around 110 dollars per 159-litre drum
to approximately 30-35 dollars (for North Sea crude). As a consequence, the major oil and gas
companies are postponing investments in high-cost exploration projects and instead are looking
for new ways to shape their own future. Innovation is needed more than ever before, and
developing new technologies is crucial to bringing down the costs of exploration and production.
Huisman, the ambitious Dutch specialists in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions recognise this fact
better than anyone. The company cherishes its clients, and thanks to its constantly innovative
approach has proven capable of delivering yet another series of innovative ideas, right on time,
that are smarter, cheaper, more efficient and safer.
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“We often come up with completely
new developments, and the occasional
no-brainer, but our overall goal is to
always focus on making work on
board faster, easier and safer, with
the eventual objective of making
operations profitable,” explained
Dieter Wijning, Product Manager
Drilling. “Given current oil prices,
it is pure necessity to think about cost
reductions, and with that knowledge
forever in our mind we are working
to develop technologies that should
help operators continue to produce
offshore oil and gas profitably now
and in the future. Our clients are fully
aware of our problem-solving abilities,
and know what they can expect from
Huisman. And we always live up to
those expectations.” Huisman looks
at the world today, and comes up with
new opportunities for the near future.
The solutions range from systems for
faster pipe laying, drilling systems of
up to 1600 tonnes, new crane and
lifting technologies and tidal energy.
Whatever you need, Huisman already
has an off-the-shelf solution available.
Longer drill pipes
Longer drill pipes, automation and
robotics are topics that are attracting
much attention among oil companies
when it comes to drilling. “They are
focusing on efficiency and drilling
innovations that will reduce well
costs,” observed Wijning. “If you look
at the market segment for smaller
drillships, costs due to drilling work
can soon easily amount to more than
700 dollars a minute. Every minute of
drilling time you can save is therefore
more than welcome. Huisman leaves
no stone unturned in achieving those
savings, not by focusing on accelerating
the drilling process itself, but by
developing smart systems that
generate time savings when it
comes to carrying out a whole raft
of other essential tasks that back
up the drilling process.
Specifically in those areas there are
huge savings to be made, because
during the actual drilling operation
a drillship is only actively carrying
out drilling work for one quarter of
the time. For the other three quarters,
the crew is involved for example in
pumping cement into the drill hole
or lowering a BOP. “We have recently
been focusing specifically on these
activities,” explained Wijning.
“One of the solutions is to use longer
drill pipes. Generally speaking,
drillships use 90 ft or 135 ft pipes.
Huisman has introduced a working
method using 180 ft-long pipes for
which we have of course developed
a special handling system. At the end
of the day, the pipe must be positioned
vertically. It is far too risky to simply
mount a higher drill tower on board
a traditional ship, so instead we took
a very close look at the complete
handling process around the tower.
The underlying principle was that if
you design a vessel around the tower,
you automatically end up with a more
efficient result. Our studies have
already resulted in the development
of a new handling method that uses
a new design of drill tower for 180-ft
pipes that is in fact physically installed
15 metres lower on the drillship than
was the case in the past. In this way,
we eradicate the disadvantages of
a higher drill tower, and the related
higher centre of gravity.”
Robotisation
Another aspect on which Huisman
is currently focusing much attention
is the robotisation of the drilling
process. Why? Because at process
level, practically all handling
operations are repetitive. Drilling
is effectively a question of endless
repetitions. Wijning explained,
“And specifically in relation to
repetitive actions, humans are not the
best performers. Things may go well
one thousand times, but all it takes is
a minute loss of concentration and
things go completely wrong. Computers
on the other hand are particularly
good at repetitive tasks. They simply
keep on going. For that reason,
automation of the drilling process
offers sure possibilities. That is why
Huisman has developed a series of
so-called manipulators that are
attached to the drill tower. These are
a sort of mini robots fitted with a
whole range of sensors, and controlled
by a computer. As a result, human
control and human interaction are
completely eradicated. A computer
can for example be instructed to
insert 5000 ft of pipe into the drill
hole, and the crew no longer needs
to take any further action.”
Different type of people
In collaboration with drilling contractors
and operators, Huisman has succeeded
in demonstrating that the use of the
180-ft pipes in combination with an
automated system generates a 20 to
30 percent time saving as compared
to a traditional system. If that means
that a drilling operation that would
normally last 100 days can be reduced
to just 70/75 days, the result is a
significant saving. Dieter Wijning
was not yet able to say whether the
next generation of drillships will also
need fewer people on board. What
automation calls for is a different
type of people. With different qualities.
“A considerable shift is currently
taking place in crews on board, in the
offshore industry. The old hands are
gradually leaving, while the newcomers
are made up of a relatively young
generation, who are able to climb
aboard, as it were, straight from their
PlayStation environment. No longer
are we seeing men fixing lengths
of pipe together with an enormous
wrench, but instead highly trained
young people who have grown up
surrounded by the phenomenon of
automation. Take for example the
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Huisdrill 12,000 next
generation drillship.
Noble Bully II, featuring a multipurpose
tower. This tower was designed by
Huisman to maximise productivity
and safety. During a recent project off
the coast of Brazil, the drillship was
run by two young men in their early
thirties. Because the duo knew exactly
how the system worked and how to
operate it, the entire operation went
without a hitch. The time savings they
achieved were of a magnitude that
many operators can only dream of.
Drilling tower
Against that background, Dieter
Wijning predicts exciting times for the
sixth generation of drillships that look
set to soon fall idle, because operators
are postponing drilling operations in
the hope of better opportunities in the
future. The surplus of drillships on
offer is threatening to create a highly
competitive market, on which day
rates will come under huge pressure.
According to Huisman’s philosophy,
contractors would be better to stand
out against the competition by
offering the very latest generation of
drillships. That may take the form of
a new-build project, or a major
retrofit of an existing vessel.
By installing a completely new
and cost-effective drilling system, a
retrofitted vessel could in the future
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fully comply with the schedule of
requirements imposed by the oil
companies, when they charter
drillships. “Our challenge lies in
actually proving in practice what
we are claiming in theory. Drillers
are people that want to see before
they buy. For that reason, we recently
installed a full-scale 84 metre-high
drilling tower here in Schiedam,
capable of handling 55 metre (180 ft)
stands and 46 metre (150 ft) risers.
All the new systems and products
are implemented on this drilling
tower, so they can undergo thorough
testing, and we have the opportunity
to demonstrate that our claims can
actually be achieved in practice.”
Pipelay
Terence Vehmeijer is Huisman’s
Product Manager Pipelay. Partly
thanks to the sale of a large number
of pipe lay towers to Subsea 7,
Technip-DOF and others, he can
now look back on an exciting period.
The eighth system from the series was
installed on board the Skandi Acu,
at the start of 2016. The system in
question was a 650 mt pipelay system,
and as world market leader in the
turnkey delivery of deepwater pipelay
systems, Huisman supplies integrated
systems including Flex-lay systems,
S-lay systems, J-lay systems and
Reel-lay systems. The company also
recently delivered a special multi-lay
system that combines Flex-lay, J-Lay
and Reel-lay techniques, on board the
Aegir, operated by Heerema. Just like
his colleague Dieter Wijning, Vehmeijer
has recently been closely involved in
developing a whole raft of time-saving
systems for the various actions that
have to be carried out during pipe lay
operations. One example is the End
Connector Handler, which automates
the handling of first and second end
connectors. It routes the end connector
from deck storage across the aligner
and down into the firing line, prior to
engaging the tensioner to secure the
product. It also limits contact between
the end connector and the attached
bend stiffener, with the aligner.
This approach improves safety by
limiting the level of human
intervention and assistance required.
The system was designed for
standalone operation, without the use
of secondary handling systems, such
as a service crane. Use of the End
Connector Handler means that this
particular activity can be performed
in just twenty minutes, as compared
to the standard several hours.
Operational efficiency
Another novelty is the Second End
Transfer System which was developed
to improve operational efficiency and
safety when transferring the second
end connector of a flexible pipe from
above the tensioners to the work table,
avoiding the use of the conventional
heavy loose rigging, at height.
The system, mounted on a trolley,
restricts swinging motions by the end
of the connector during the handover
of the A&R system, and can optionally
be used as an A&R wire centralising
device. The system is suitable for use
in water depths of between 2000 and
3000 metres, and can handle wires of
between 4 and 24 inches.
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BLUE Piling technology.
To date, five end connector handlers
have been sold, for installation on
board vessels operated by DOF and
DOF-Technip. Two are already
operational (when this magazine is
published in May), one will be ready
for installation in the near future,
and the final two are due to be
delivered later this year. This
innovative transfer system can also
easily be mounted on already
installed pipelay systems.
Adjustable pads are the next item
on the list of innovations at Huisman.
Vehmeijer explained, “Pads are the
interface between the tensioner and
the pipe. Pads of several different sizes
are needed to cover the full range
of pipe diameters that can be laid.
Changes have to be made frequently.
Conventionally, the task of replacing
hundreds of pads manually is
extremely time consuming.
On average, each pad weighs 20 kg,
and the changeover operation often
requires the vessel to sail into
sheltered waters. The advantage
of the new adjustable pad design
is that it can be set to different
positions so that the complete range
of pipe diameters can be handled,
with fewer pads. The weight of the
new cast iron pads has also been
reduced, making pad changeovers
easier, quicker and safer for the
personnel involved.”
Yet another new development is the
Fully Opening Tensioner. This system
consists of two halves that can be
opened up to fully clear the firing
line. The new tensioner retains most
of the advantages of the retractable
tensioner, but takes up less space on
the ramp. The result is a lightweight,
compact system that can even be
installed on relatively small vessels.
Start-ups in tidal and piling
Huisman has also adopted the role
of an accelerator for ambitious
companies in the offshore and
renewable energy field. The company
recently acquired stakes in two
start-ups, allowing them to achieve
further growth. One is Fistuca,
a dynamic company that is developing
solutions for the foundation industry.
The other is Tocardo Tidal Turbines,
producers of tidal and free-flow water
turbines for generating clean energy.
As Terence Vehmeijer explained,
“By using our in-depth knowledge
of the offshore industry and our
expertise with offshore equipment,
we at Huisman see huge potential
for both of these highly innovative
technologies. Tocardo is a company
that harvests clean and sustainable
energy for future generations, and
is one of the partners in the unique
Bluetec collaborative venture,
alongside such companies as
Bluewater, Damen, Van Oord and
Vryhof. The first Tocardo test turbine
was installed in 2005, followed in
2010 by the installation of a commercial
turbine. The company has been fully
commercial since 2012, when the first
turbines were sold to Nepal and
Japan. Last year, Tocardo installed
five tidal turbines in the Dutch storm
surge barrier on the Eastern Scheldt
estuary, for the generation of clean
energy. The installation is the largest
tidal energy project in the Netherlands,
and the world’s largest commercial
tidal installation, comprising five
turbines in a single array. Tocardo is
in a position to become leader in the
tidal energy market, but achieving
that status requires large investments,
realistic rates for tidal energy and a
touch of idealism. Only when all three
are in place can we start to build this
important export industry. Huisman
has demonstrated its willingness to
take this risk and is currently supporting
the project financially and with
expertise, because we believe in the
future of tidal energy and see great
Dutch export opportunities.”
BLUE piling
Jasper Winkes is the founder of
Fistuca. He developed the patented
so-called BLUE Piling Technology.
This revolutionary technology allows
the silent installation of largediameter steel piles offshore and
as such is expected to significantly
reduce the foundation installation
costs for offshore wind turbines.
The technology breaks with the
tradition of using large impact
hammers, and instead utilises
a resource abundantly available
offshore …. water! Instead of using
a steel ram to hit the pile, BLUE Piling
Technology uses the combustion of
a gas mixture beneath a water
column to create a rise in pressure.
This pressure accelerates the water
upwards, in turn causing a downward
force that pushes the pile into the soil.
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1000 mT Hybrid Boom Crane and
Huisman crane on board
600 mT Flex-lay System onboard
Seajacks Scylla.
Subsea 7’s Seven Arctic.
The water column then falls back
down, delivering a second blow.
The exhaust gases are released and
the cycle is repeated.
BLUE Piling Technology is environmentally friendly for a number of
reasons. It does not use oil to power
the hammer; it generates much lower
underwater noise levels than
a conventional hydraulic hammer;
it minimises pile fatigue and it has
a safe and robust setup, with full
maintenance options on board.
One positive side effect of this
technology, which has been tested
on an offshore test pile owned by
Heerema, is that it allows very large
concrete piles to be driven into the
soil, without generating harmful
tensile stresses. Great scalability will
even allow the world’s largest piles to
be driven, using BLUE Piling Technology.
There is already huge interest in the
system, from all over the world.
Support Journal Awards ceremony.
This Hybrid Boom Crane has now been
broadly recognised as delivering
a significant innovation to the design,
build and operational prospects
for offshore support vessels.
“The philosophy at Huisman is that we
must be able to build and deliver every
conceivable crane-related system.
Everything we build is custom-made,
but starts from a clearly defined basis.
That framework means that we can
adapt more swiftly. On paper at least,
we have already developed a mast
crane, fitted with a knuckle boom.
The advantage of this system is that
vessels with very large cranes are now
capable of passing beneath a whole
variety of bridges. By making a ‘kink’
in the crane, in the future, it will be
possible for a far smaller crane to pick
up objects of far greater volume that
has been the case to date. The objects
I am talking about weigh between
1000 and 3000 tonnes.”
Cranes
Compact
Last but certainly not least, the
final speaker is Mathijs te Velthuis,
Engineering Group Leader –
Mechanical Engineering. He talked
about the latest gadgets and
developments in the field of lifting
equipment and offshore cranes. In
2015, Huisman introduced the Hybrid
Boom Crane, for which the company
received the Innovation of the Year
Award during the annual Offshore
The market today is calling for everything to be more efficient, cheaper,
faster and stronger. In response,
Mathijs te Velthuis and his colleagues
are hard at work every day optimising
cranes, and making them even more
compact. The results of their efforts
include the world’s largest Leg Encircling
Crane recently installed on the newbuilt jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla.
The crane is capable of lifting 1500mt,
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to 34 metres. Huisman has recently
been commissioned by Allseas to
design and manufacture a new
offshore mast crane for the pipelay
vessel Solitaire. The new 850-metric
ton (937-ton) crane will deliver up to
1,600 m (5,249 ft) of hook travel, in a
single fall. The crane will be equipped
with an active heave compensation
system on the main and whip hoist,
to counteract the vessel’s heave motion
when landing a load on the seabed.
Huisman claims that use of a splittable
block on the main hoist will allow the
number of falls to be reduced from
eight to four, without needing
a re-reeving adjustment. This should
help optimise the lift, at the required
load and speed.
World’s largest cranes
Huisman is currently hard at work
at its yard in China on the fabrication
of two 10,000mt Tub Mounted Cranes
for Heerema. These, the largest cranes
in the world, will be installed on board
Heerema’s new semi-submersible crane
vessel Sleipnir, thereby enabling the
NSCV to service the offshore oil and
gas industry in even better ways, in the
most diverse of circumstances.” Mathijs
te Velthuis concluded, by saying that
Huisman feels honoured that the people
at Heerema have shown their confidence
in our ability to design and construct
the largest cranes ever, for what will
be Heerema’s main construction vessel
for the next 30 years.”
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International accolades for Dutch company DCN
Hyperbaric welding on
live subsea pipeline
DCN International Diving and Marine
Contractors recently employed
a unique method that made it
possible to repair a crack on
a 32-inch live gas pipeline
27 metres below the Java Sea,
three times more cheaply than by
installing a bypass. Engineers from
the Dutch company came up with
a completely new application for
an existing concept. Thanks to
a number of innovative approaches, DCN was able to introduce the
method in the Java Sea, where the
critical repair could be carried out
on a live, operational gas pipeline.
For the client, the new method
meant a saving of millions.
At the end of last year, DCN was
awarded the largest EPIC contract in
the company’s history. The Indonesian
state-owned company PGN (Perushaan
Gas Negara), the national gas
transportation and distribution
company, awarded DCN the order
to seal a tear in a seven year old gas
pipeline (commissioned 2006) located
on the seabed in the Java Sea. The
crack had been discovered in 2013,
and temporarily sealed using a Plidco
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clamp. The gas that flows through the
pipeline is delivered to a major power
station, supplying electricity to the
Indonesian capital city of Jakarta.
Switching to another pipeline was not
possible, so one of the requirements
imposed by PGN was that throughout
the repair, the gas supply had to be
continued without interruption.
Hyperbaric centre
To be able to meet the requirement for
continued operational availability of
the pipeline during the repair, DCN
proposed to carry out the repair by
performing the repair by hyperbaric
welding of a sleeve designed to
contain the full design pressure of the
pipeline and provide the mechanical
strength to reinstate the capacity of
the pipe to bear operational loading.
Through the use of a habitat, a sealed
working space that offers divers a safe
and protected working environment,
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and allows the repair to be performed
in dry. Other bidders viewed the
proposed methods with considerable
scepticism, and instead opted for a far
more costly and complex method that
involved installing a hot tap bypass.
“DCN was the only company that met
the requirements imposed by PGN,
with its repair proposal,” explained
DCN-director Wim Vriens. Because of
the criticality of the pipeline to PGN’s
business, the company demanded
precise preparation of all work that
identified and addressed all risks.
Preparations included the mock-up
testing of the welding and the
installation procedure for the
stand-off sleeve. As Vriens continued:
“The fact that we are the only diving
company in the world to have our
own complete hyperbaric centre was
therefore a decisive factor in the
awarding of the order. During the
summer, here in Bergen op Zoom,
we carried out a series of dry runs and
tests. We simulated all the elementary
welding tasks necessary to ensure the
long-term success of the repair at our
own facility. The welding tests were
in fact carried out by the same divers
who would eventually be employed
to carry out the work at a depth of
27 metres in the Java Sea. After the
extensive testing programme, all the
risks had been identified, mitigated
and managed.”
Design Concept
The concept for the repair was
required to encapsulate the temporary
Plidco repair clamp, isolate the
breathable habitat atmosphere from
any possible gas leakage from the
pipe during the repair and provide
equivalent mechanical strength in
order to stabilise the crack to ensure
long-term integrity of the pipeline
was ensured.
The Plidco temporary repair clamp is
not designed to transfer any
The habitat, a sealed working space that offers
divers a safe and protected working environment.
mechanical loading. It provides a seal
to stop gas escaping from the pipeline
through the crack. A bolted containment
clamp designed to seal around the
Plidco clamp gave the ability to
contain or vent gas that may potential
escape from the Plidco as a result
of accidental damage to the Plidco
during performance of the repair. The
containment clamp was designed for
the full design pressure of the pipeline
(1150 psig or 7.93 MPa) and provided
a way of isolating any leaks caused
by disturbing the Plidco clamp. Hoses
connected to the containment clamp
allowed the detection of leaks from
the Plidco clamp by passing argon gas
through the containment clamp and
to a gas detector without affecting the
breathable atmosphere in the habitat.
A stand-off sleeve (SOS), manufactured
in two halves that encapsulate the
containment clamp and is welded to
the pipe then provides the long-term
containment and reinforcement of the
pipe. The shape of the SOS consisted
of two truncated conical sections,
with the small diameter sized to fit
the outside diameter of the pipe,
joined two a central cylindrical
section designed to encapsulate the
containment clamp. The SOS is
manufactured from 40 millimetre thick
plate and rolled to precise dimensions
to allow fit up to the existing pipe and
also to ensure good weld to join the
The bolted containment clamp designed
to seal around the Plidco clamp.
two halves of the SOS along the
longitudinal seam.
During the pre-engineering survey,
precise measurements of the existing
pipe were taken. After removal of
sufficient concrete and corrosion
coating to allow access to the proposed
weld locations, the ovality of the pipe
both local to the planned welds and at
the sealing location for the containment
clamp was accurately determined. Out
of straightness of the pipe across the
repair position was also determined.
Using UT probes, the pipe wall at the
weld location was also surveyed to
determine wall thickness and for
potential laminations.
Design activities during the engineering
phase ensured that the repair method
did not impose any undue loads on to
the pipeline prior to completion of the
repair by modelled the various stages
of the repair process. Local and global
finite element models were used to
verify the design of the SOS against
all operating and environmental
loads. Global modelling of the pipe
crossing included the changes in
loading from removal of the concrete,
the effect of varying buoyancy when
the habitat is placed flooded and then
with atmosphere, placement onto the
pipe of the containment clamp and
SOS in the dry and subsequent
flooding during habitat removal at
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Habitat preparations for overboarding.
Welding test.
completion of the repair. Of course,
long term effects of the current and
wave loading on the pipe, as well as
expected operating pressure variations
and temperature changes due to
seasonal temperature difference were
investigated. Local finite element
models were used to investigate the
effect of the global loading on the
existing crack and on the repair weld.
An ECA (engineering criticality
assessment) using the local stress
distribution in the welds based on the
FE analysis was also used to develop
NDT acceptance criteria. CTOD (crack
tip opening displacement) measurements
on the sample material welded using
the welding procedures was used to
calibrate the acceptance criteria
against the expected weld parameters
based on the actual material behaviour.
Risk Management
A number of significant risks were
identified early in the project. The
obvious are the HSE risks associated
with saturation diving, but the project
team had to address also technical
risks are associated with achieving the
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required high quality weld on an
operating pipeline in the confined
space of the habitat. To ensure the
quality of the repair weld and
minimise risk for the divers the welds
were designed and tested to comply
with the requirements for a ‘golden
weld’. This required extensive testing
during the development of the
welding procedures and development
of the inspection methods based on
TOFD (time of flight diffraction –
a UT method).
For the mitigation of risk associated
with welding under hyperbaric
conditions, DCN Diving utilised their
hyperbaric testing centre to test the
welding procedures under simulated
hyperbaric conditions. Initially, the
proposed weld procedures were
qualified under hyperbaric conditions
using the same plate that was used
to manufacture as the finished SOS.
The test plate underwent the same
heat treatment as the final SOS.
Subsequently, a full scale mock-up of
the SOS on sample pipe sourced from
the PGN original project stockpile was
welded inside the hyperbaric test
chamber. The sample pipe was chosen
to match the chemistry of the two
joints the SOS was proposed to be
welded to and thus the actual welding
conditions were matched as close as
practically. All welding machines,
cables and umbilicals to be utilised
in the offshore campaign were first
tested in the hyperbaric centre during
the WPS qualifications and mock-up
tests. DCN being the owners of their
own hyperbaric test centre was thus
an important factor in the success
of the welding repair.
One of the critical safety risks for
the divers was the possibility of
contamination of the breathable
atmosphere inside the habitat due
to a possible leak from the pipeline,
caused by, for example, disturbance
of the Plidco clamp. The containment
barrier described above allowed
venting of the gas to a safe area
outside the habitat as the primary
means of mitigating the risk. A second
mitigation was the development and
testing of detailed procedures to
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ensure that both the containment
clamp and the SOS were handled in
an efficient and safe way. Each of the
half section of the containment clamp
and the SOS weighed approximately
2.5 tons. Training of the divers inside
the habitat was part of the mock-up
trials. For this purpose, DCN set up
the pipe in the yard at the angle and
elevation as per the pre-engineering
survey. The clamp installation
procedure could then be tested inside
the habitat. This way all diver/welders
were familiar with handling of the
containment clamp and SOS as well
as the welding procedures.
The soil at the crossing locations
consisted of approximately 5 metre
thick very soft clay, which overlaid a
firmer, older clay layer. Choice of a
suitable foundation concept for the
habitat was critical in ensuring that
the habitat with a dry weight of 80
tonne would remain in place during
the estimated month long repair
duration. The chosen concept was
suction pile foundations, with four
suction piles used to support each of
the four legs of the habitat. The suction
piles consisted of 6 metre long by
1400 millimetre diameter tubulars that
had piping and attachment lugs for
connecting the suction pump skid on
the top plate. The habitat was then
supported by landing plates that were
attached to the top of the pile after
removal of the pump skid. A fifth
suction pile planned as a test pile prior
to installation of the actual foundation
piles to verify the design geotechnical
parameters and confirm the load
capacity of the piles. This fifth pile
was placed away from the habitat
location and then utilised to provide
tie-back of the umbilicals for the
habitat and welding during the
repair. Settlement of the habitat was
monitored as the door seals used to
seal around the pipe relied on
elastomers in contact with the
concrete coated pipe for sealing.
Excessive movement would deflect
the seals and allow water to flood the
habitat. By making the suction piles
long enough to penetrate into the firm
clay layer at 5 metre depth the
possible settlement was reduced to
insignificant levels. Indeed, monitoring
the position of the top of the suction
piles for the duration of the repair
showed that the actual settlement was
less than the ± 2 centimetreaccuracy
of the Digiquartz used to measure the
installed height of the suction piles.
Logistics
The implementation of the project
itself also called for a carefully
planned logistic organisation. The first
containers of equipment were shipped
to Singapore at the start of July,
including the complete saturation
diving system and the habitat with
suction anchors (piles). The final batch
of welding equipment and the pre-heat
induction cables developed and
produced specially for the project
were finally sent out by airfreight at
the end of July. Applying power to
these cables after wrapping them
around the pipeline, generates the
necessary heat to preheat the pipeline
to 70 degrees, before a start can be
made on the actual welding work.
The hyperbaric centre at DCN clearly
played a central role in developing
and testing these unique cables.
Four sets
In Singapore, all the equipment was
then placed on the afterdeck of the
vessel ‘Normand Baltic’, chartered for
the work by DCN. The Norwegian
DP2 vessel subsequently sailed to
the island of Batam at the start of
September, to collect the sleeves that
were also specially produced for this
project. The purpose of the sleeves is
to provide mechanical strength and
contain the gas and for this it is welded
around the pipeline, as a sort of second
skin. In line with the specifications,
four sets of sleeves were produced;
one set for test welding, one for
In DCN’s own hyperbaric centre, all the
elementary welding tasks necessary
to ensure the long-term success of
the repair were simulated.
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simulating handling in the habitat, one
for the actual welding for the repair of
the cracked pipeline and one as a spare.
Installation
In preparation for the offshore
work 30 kilometres off the coast,
a pre-engineering survey of the
project area was undertaken. This
consisted of hull mounted multi-beam
echo sounder (MBES) and sub-bottom
profile survey, as well as close diver
inspection of the existing facilities.
Vibrocore samples were also taken
for geotechnical analysis to provide
data for design of the suction piles.
Similary, on arriving for the final
repair the MBES and diver survey
were repeated to ensure that
conditions of the pipeline had
remained the same. After studying the
data, a start was made on installing
the five six-metre long piles in the
seabed made up of silt and clay.
The first pile was used as a trial pile
to confirm that the capacity was
according to the design expectations.
The habitat subsequently was to be
placed on the remaining four piles.
To ensure installation of the piles
within a tolerance of just 20 centimetre,
a complete location-finding system
was placed on the pipeline, using
acoustic, underwater beacons.
These made it possible to produce
a three-dimensional view of the
underwater situation. Safety was the
first priority; we had to avoid coming
into contact with the pipeline so as
not the cause the crack to spread
further. The placement of the habitat
with its diving bell, which would
serve as a safe haven throughout
the project for the nine saturation
divers, went without a hitch.
“This was certainly one of the most
critical moments of the project, and
we were greatly relieved when the
habitat was put in place right first
time”, admitted Wim Vriens.
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Following the installation of door
seals around the habitat opening
through which the pipe passed, it was
purged to remove the water from
inside the habitat. The gas containment
barrier was installed on the pipeline to
seal around the existing Plidco clamp,
followed by the lower and upper
sleeve. The divers were then able
to start on the demanding welding
process while the gas continued to
be pumped through the pipeline.
Over a period of ten days, welding
was carried out uninterrupted, while
the welded layers underwent continuous
ultrasonic testing. Finally, the repaired
section of the pipeline was fitted with
an anti-corrosion wrapping.
The entire repair project was successfully
concluded by mid-October, well
within the agreed timeframe, on
budget, without any additional work
being required and without a single
personal injury. A remarkable
performance that was closely
monitored by the entire subsea world.
Wim Vriens concluded: “What DCN
has demonstrated with this project
is the company’s innovative attitude
that enables us to tackle complex
projects with simple solutions. In
coming up with those solutions, we
are clearly willing to think out of the
box. Thanks to this creative approach,
we are able to break out of existing
patterns, and deal with problems and
dilemmas in an entirely new way. We
come up with solutions that others set
aside as unworkable. This project is
incontrovertible proof of that ability.”
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Frames completes production power unit for Petrobras FPSO
MODEC contract for
subsea HPU and well
control racks
Frames, the Dutch supplier of oil & gas solutions, has
completed the flow control and safeguarding equipment
for the Petrobras FPSO Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes
MV29. MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore)
awarded Frames the contract for supplying one subsea
hydraulic power unit (HPU) package, 14 production well
control Racks, eight water injection well control
racks and accessory equipment.
The FPSO Cidade de Campos dos
Goytacazes MV29 will be used to
develop the Tartaruga Verde and
Tartaruga Mestiça fields, located in
the Campos basin off the coast of
Brazil. The FPSO will be capable of
processing 150,000 barrels of crude
oil a day. The Frames flow control and
safeguarding equipment is designed to
provide a clean and reliable hydraulic
pressurized fluid for the actuators of
hydraulic operated subsea valves.
Design optimization
“The production of FPSOs is becoming
increasingly challenging, especially in
today’s difficult economic climate”,
says Kor Paap, Account Manager for
Subsea Hydraulics at Frames Flow
Control & Safeguarding. “For us, but
also for oil companies and contractors,
it’s necessary to work efficiently
and reduce costs. With our technical
know-how and multidisciplinary
capabilities for design optimization,
we were able to provide the most
customized cost-effective solution
for this project.”
Assembly of well control racks.
Combination
With more than 90 FPSO projects
worldwide, Frames has plenty of
experience in the FPSO market, which
has resulted in a smart solution based
on earlier FPSO projects. Paap adds:
“For this project, we have implemented
- as far as practically possible a standardized design approach based
on a previous supplied project with
MODEC (for the FPSO Cidade de
Caraguatatuba MV27) and implemented
additional client and end-user
requirements. This has resulted
in lower CAPEX.”
Due to a new development program
established to enhance project
execution performance, Frames has
managed to complete 95% of the
engineering work for this project
in three weeks’ time. This will
ultimately lead to a shorter lead
time for this HPU.
Limited plot space
HPUs are reliable solutions for
controlling processes at any oil
and gas plant and ensure reliable
and safe production conditions.
A typical Frames HPU is equipped
with reservoirs, pumps, motors,
filters, accumulators, valves and
instrumentation. Frames delivers
customized designs according to
client specifications and project
conditions. The Frames in-house
engineering team also designs
powerful hydraulic packages
with limited plot space.
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Game changer in maintaining offshore facilities
Barge Master receives
Spotlight Small Business
Award at OTC 2016
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) announced that 13 international technologies have
received the 2016 Spotlight on New Technology Award. For a second consecutive year, OTC also
supported and recognized the innovative technologies being developed by small businesses and
in this category Barge Master, located in Capelle aan de IJssel, the Netherlands, and producer of
Barge Master T40 was awarded the prestigious Spotlight Small Business Award.
“The 2016 Spotlight Award winners
embody OTC’s mission to advance
scientific and technical knowledge
for the safe, environmentally friendly
development of offshore oil and gas
resources,” said Spotlight Award
Committee Chair Mark Kalman.
“Thanks to these recipients’ pioneering
spirit, offshore E&P will continue to
play a key role in supplying the world
with energy in a sustainable manner.”
Huge honour
A proud Martijn Koppert, director of
Barge Master, said: “To be recognized
for our pioneering work in the
development of the world’s first fully
motion compensated crane enabling
safe lifts from a moving vessel to an
offshore installation is a huge honour
for Barge Master. We are responsible
for the innovation of this vessel
mounted compensated knuckle boom
crane, of which the very first system
is already in operation since 2015
on board the Maintenance Support
Walk-to-Work Vessel ‘Kroonborg’ to
service for the coming ten years more
than 20 Shell/NAM platforms in the
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North Sea. The system works very
well and within specification,
compensating 90-95% of the vessel
motions. The ‘Kroonborg’ is owned by
Koninklijke Wagenborg from Delfzijl,
and the client is highly satisfied and
considers taking a second vessel
having a BM-T40 into operation.
In general we can say that there
is a worldwide interest for this unique
system. Actually this technology
solves the age-old problem of lifting
at sea. Samples are maintenance
works, wire line operations,
decommissioning and ROV handling
in the oil and gas industry. For the
offshore wind sector the system results
in great benefits for installation and
maintenance operations and for the
marine salvage industry the transfer
of tools and personnel can be safely
executed in the future.”
Unique
As already stated in the introduction
of this article the BM-T40 motion
compensated crane enables users to
lift safely from a moving vessel to
an offshore installation. This unique
piece of equipment eliminates motions
at the base of the crane allowing work
to continue safely in higher sea-states,
eliminating the need for platform
cranes and reducing costs significantly.
The system is a vessel mounted
motion compensated knuckle boom
crane. Motions of the vessel are
compensated in 3 degrees of freedom:
roll/pitch/heave. This is done inside
a high-tech pedestal and results in
no swinging of the load, no relative
heave motion causing snatch loads
and re-bounce. The vessel motions
are compensated up to 3m significant
wave height, which means 6 meter
waves can be encountered while work
can continue safely. This creates
workable weather for more than 90%
of the year on the North Sea. The
system is designed for lifting loads of
15mT at 10m radius and 5mT at 20m
radius, up to 45 meters above the
waterline. The T40 can be used to lift
various loads from the floating vessel
to a fixed platform. The whole system
is man-riding certified, so personnel
can also be transferred. The system
is hydraulically actuated and is
controlled by real-time controllers
that use vessel motions as input
parameters. Redundancy is applied to
all critical components assuring safe
motion compensated offshore lifting.
The BM-T40 is certified by Lloyd’s
Register as Offshore Lifting Appliance.
As the whole crane is compensated
and the crane driver is also stationary,
he/she can oversee the operation and
position a load very accurately. The
whole operation including lifts from
the vessel, transferring to an offshore
platform and subsequently placing
the load onto the platform is executed
safer, quicker, more efficient and
at lower cost.
Significant cost saving
Active heave compensated cranes
already existed. Compensation in this
one degree of freedom works fine for
sub-sea works but is not suitable to
lift loads onto platforms at large
heights while experiencing vessel
motions due the waves/swell.
With the BM-T40 this becomes
possible because the load is now
hanging still and therefore it is safe
to lift, while creating a far greater
utilization rate of the vessel, as well
as eliminating the need for platform
mounted cranes. The unique patented
‘on-board lifting’ functionality allows
safe connection of the load on the
deck as there is no swinging of the
hook and no relative heave. The
BM-T40 has a very small footprint,
leaving all deck space for cargo.
Game changer
Koppert: “Significant costs can be
saved using the BM-T40. Therefore
the system can be considered as
a game changer in maintaining
offshore facilities. No platform cranes
are needed anymore, eliminating
APEX but also significant OPEX (up
to 1 million euro’s per crane per year).
Work can continue safely up to
Hs=3m, creating >90% workability
in the North-Sea conditions. Thanks
to our ‘walk to work package’ which
includes the crane plus a compensated
gangway, high-risk and costly
helicopter flights are eliminated
as well as the crew works from the
vessel with more effective hours/day.
Helidecks can be removed/not
installed and expensive jack-up rigs
are no longer needed for maintenance
and well work overs. Above reduces
the costs for production a lot, making
it feasible to exploit more fields and
also smaller fields or keeping them
in production longer, even with
current low oil prices!”
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Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring
Total Mooring Solution
The global offshore mooring industry is facing significant challenges, as it seeks to balance the
increasing complexity and remoteness of offshore developments with the need to manage
expenditure in today’s cost-conscious environment.
Furthermore, with every day a rig
is in transport being a day lost to
drilling, faster mobilization and
reduced drilling costs are key to
operations. At the same time, all
operators must continue to operate
to the highest standards of safety
and asset integrity.
It’s against this backdrop that operators
and drilling contractors are looking to
a total mooring solution that includes
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everything from pre-lay and pre-rig
advances through to the very latest in
anchoring, buoyancy units, fiber
mooring rope, swivels, and more.
One such provider is globally positioned
Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring.
Deep Sea Mooring offers a comprehensive portfolio of offshore mooring
services from pre-lay and rig move
solutions through to marine engineering
and mooring equipment rental.
Proposition
In March 2015, Deep Sea Mooring put
its total mooring proposition to the
test in securing a turnkey contract
for the provision of mooring and
rig positioning services to a leading
Australian oil and gas operator.
The contract represented the first
time all four sister companies of
Global Maritime have been involved
in an Australian operation.
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Loading of the anchors.
As well as Deep Sea Mooring, this
included Global Maritime Vryhof,
a pioneer in anchoring; Global
Maritime MoorLink, that focuses
on mobile, permanent and installation
mooring solutions and Global
Maritime Consultancy & Engineering,
a leading marine, offshore and
engineering consultancy.
Mooring services were provided for
a semisubmersible drilling unit.
Accompanying challenges included
the need to navigate around existing
subsea infrastructure, such as pipelines,
wellheads and umbilicals, as well as
the fact that the drilling unit would
be in operation during cyclone season.
12-Point mooring system
Deep Sea Mooring designed,
engineered and supplied an advanced
12-point mooring system with the
initial installation consisting of
12-pre-laid anchors that were set
and tension tested prior to the arrival
of the semisubmersible drilling unit.
The total mooring solution, when the
rig was operational, consisted of
eight 1,750-meter mooring lines a combination of chain, synthetic
fiber rope, rig chain, subsurface buoys
and the relevant jewelry for connection;
four storm mooring lines at 1,930
meters to ensure maximum stability
during the cyclone season (outside
cyclone season only 8 mooring lines
were used); high-strength MoorLink
swivels that were used to relieve the
twist and torque that builds up in
the mooring line; and 20 ton Mk5
StevShark anchors from Vryhof which
facilitate performance in challenging
soils. In this case, the mudline consisted
of very silty sand (silt) and the
formation sandy clay/silty clay.
ADAPS
Deep Sea Mooring’s Advanced
Distance and Positioning System
(ADAPS) and Device Tracking and
Control Systems (DTAC) were also
used. The ADAPS helped attach the
anchors prior to deployment, ensured
that the anchor landed in the required
position and provided the pitch and
roll of the anchor along with the
depth of penetration – vital when
placing anchors in close proximity
to subsea structures (as was the case
here). The DTAC provided desktop
tracking and buoy position
monitoring prior to the rig’s arrival.
Barry Silver of Global Maritime
Deep Sea Mooring concludes:
“When it comes to offshore mooring
and the unique challenges we face,
the whole is better than the sum of
its parts. Nowhere is this better
demonstrated that in this offshore
example where our breadth of
expertise led to a total mooring
solution. At a time of increased
offshore complexities and a continued
focus on the bottom line, we believe
we have a compelling proposition.”
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Pioneering role for Van Beest
Early evolution of
ROV-lifting equipment
The possible applications and
usage of Remote Operated
Vehicles (ROV) in the offshore
oil market increases
continuously. Deepwater installation, assembly and disassembly
of equipment without the need
for divers has obvious benefits
such as increased safety and
– potentially, at least – cost
savings. In reaction to much
frustration among ROV
operators and their customers,
deepwater rigging has seen a
flurry of activity in recent years
to make releasing and retrieving
objects with an ROV faster and
more efficient. As this article
will show, ROV-shackles have
grown from ‘home-brew’products made by those
operating the ROV to sophisticated shackles made by shacklemanufacturers. Special attention
is paid to Van Beest, manufacturer of lifting equipment, as it
has had a pioneering role in the
development of ROV-specialized
lifting equipment.
Green Pin® ROV Release Polar Shackles
with locking clamp.
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Before the availability of special
shackles modified for use by ROV’s,
companies used standard shackles for
subsea lifting jobs. Assembling and
disassembling shackle pins and nuts
before or after the lifting operations
was a difficult, time-consuming task
which was done either by a diver or
an ROV. When performing such
operations with an ROV, its limits
became clear quickly, especially when
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The ROV Sping Release.
The ROV Tapered Pin D-handle.
compared with a diver’s flexibility
and dexterity. Anton van der Zalm, Vice
President of Research & Development
at Van Beest explains: “The most
important difficulties that operators
of an ROV are confronted with are
getting the pin through the shackle’s
eyes and getting a good grip on
a shackle’s handle – all the while
trying to compensate for the ROV’s
movements due to the sea’s current.”
He continues: “You can imagine that
the burdens of time and cost increase
significantly when using standard
shackles in such a situation.”
controlled production conditions.
ROV-specialized products now available
in the market can be divided in the
following categories: up to a WLL of
25t (mainly for release operations),
between WLL of 25t and 150t (variety
of either mechanical or hydraulic
mechanisms) and with a WLL of 150t
and more (mostly hydraulic systems).
Depending on the design, a particular
shackle can only release a load, retrieve
a load or it can do both. Among
lifting equipment manufacturers, Van
Beest has focused much attention on
its ROV-product range in recent years.
Efficiency
Van Beest – founded in 1922 – is the
manufacturer of Green Pin shackles
and Excel hooks and a major supplier
of steel wire rope and chain accessories
for lifting to the oil & gas industry
worldwide. The company produces
its products in The Netherlands and
France while its North American
headquarters is located in Houston.
Additionally, in April of 2016 it
opened a new office and distribution
center in Chicago.
In order to improve the efficiency of
lifting operations, ROV-operators and
sling shops started to make their own
modifications to standard shackles.
An example of such a modification
is the welding of additional parts like
grips or nuts onto a standard shackle.
While basically effective, the welding
was not followed by a heat treating
process and consequently the mechanical
properties of the shackle were unknown
and thus potentially unfit for use.
Furthermore, from a legal standpoint,
these modifications violated the basic
rule that it is not allowed to weld
anything on lifting equipment in
the field, thus invalidating the
original material certificates of
the manufacturers. As a result,
these products were usually
rejected during inspections.
Tailoring lifting equipment
Fortunately, sling shops and ROVoperators were not left to tinker with
existing products, but manufacturers
of lifting equipment started to develop
ROV-specialized product-ranges under
Increasing ease
In January 2016, Van Beest expanded
its assortment of ROV-shackles. In
close cooperation with lifting engineers
and ROV-operators, Van Beest has
designed a Green Pin ROV release
and retrieve shackle. Van der Zalm
explains: “The new Green Pin ROVshackles meets the challenges that an
ROV-operator gets confronted with
and significantly lowers the time
needed for release and retrieve
operations.” Several product-features
have been designed for this purpose.
The new shackles have a fishtailhandle or D-handle that make for
ROV Tapered Pin Fishtail.
easier handling by a hydraulically
operated ROV-arm. The pin has a
tapered ending that makes aiming
at the shackle-eyes easier and faster.
Also, the shackle’s color – polar white
– increases underwater visibility.
The newly introduced ROV shackles
are the fourth and fifth ROV-specialized
shackles in Van Beest’s assortment.
Van Beest’s other ROV-shackles can
be used for release operations. These
include the Green Pin ROV Release
Shackle with spring pins that has
two spring pins as securing devices.
This configuration is strictly for
in-line loading and may not be side
loaded. If multiple sling legs are used,
or if there is a risk for side loads,
the award-winning Green Pin ROV
Release Shackle with locking clamp
should be used. Finally, there is the
Green Pin ROV Spring Release Shackle
which may only be used for in-line
loading. Releasing a load with this
semi-automatic ROV shackle requires
the ROV-operator to grab the shackle
with the hydraulic arm only once.
This reduces operating time
significantly. Optionally, a double
safety can be added to prevent
accidental release of the load.
As this article highlighted, solutions
to ROV lifting challenges were first met
by the operator’s own ingenuity and
have since been turned into a comprehensive set of lifting solutions by
manufacturers. As ROV’s continue to
grow more advanced, associated lifting
equipment and accessories will equally
grow more sophisticated and specialized.
Seeing that usage of ROV’s – below sea
level and above – is still in its relative
infancy, this is only just the start.
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Picture: EnQuest.
Nevesbu involved in major FPSO conversion
‘EnQuest Producer’
underwent significant
modifications
Nevesbu, based in Alblasserdam, the Netherlands, was
closely involved in the major conversion of the 249-metrelong ‘EnQuest Producer’ Floating Production, Storage &
Offloading vessel (FPSO) from late 2011 until early 2015.
Oil company EnQuest is using the vessel to produce
oil in the Alma and Galia fields in the UK sector of the
North Sea. The onboard production facilities underwent
significant modifications to ensure that the FPSO can
stay in service there for another ten years. This is
the third lease of life for the vessel. Converting the
‘EnQuest Producer’ was a complex project with
some interesting findings.
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Nevesbu Naval Architects & Marine
Engineers made a major contribution
to the conversion of the FPSO and
was part of the conversion team
while work was in progress. Project
Manager Hubert van Strien and Lead
Structural Designer Edo Donkers
fill in the details.
History
The ship was built in 1983 as a tanker
for Danish shipping line, Maersk.
Bluewater Energy Systems acquired
the vessel in 1995. The tanker was
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Hubert: “The ‘Uisge Gorm’ went on to
produce oil for 13.5 years in the Fife
field in the UK sector of the North
Sea. In 2011, Bluewater Energy
Systems was approached by EnQuest,
which wanted to lease the FPSO to
produce oil in the Alma and Galia
fields. The FPSO had to undergo
several modifications because in
the Alma and Galia fields it had
to operate in deeper water and be
moored in a different wave climate.
In 2011, Bluewater Energy Systems
commissioned Nevesbu to verify the
design of the existing turret and to
make changes to it where necessary.
In early 2012, EnQuest exercised the
purchase option it held over the vessel
with Bluewater Energy Systems.
The vessel was then renamed ‘EnQuest
Producer’. From that moment on,
EnQuest became our client for the
turret and all other modifications.”
The ‘EnQuest Producer’ is moored
using internal turret mooring.
Picture: EnQuest.
subsequently converted to an FPSO
for deployment in the Fife field in the
UK sector of the North Sea, and was
renamed ‘Uisge Gorm’ by Bluewater
Energy Systems. At that time Nevesbu
handled the engineering for the
conversion under a contract with
Bluewater Energy Systems.
involves laying an anchor pattern
of twelve to sixteen chains and
anchors on the seabed like a spider’s
web. The chains converge in the centre
at a so-called ‘spider’. The spider is
suspended from a spindle (the turret
around which the ship rotates).
to the process installation (topside) of
the FPSO while the vessel rotates and
without the risers becoming tangled.
In the topside, the crude oil is treated
and stripped of elements like gas, salt,
sand and water for subsequent
transportation to the storage tanks.
During the design stage, Nevesbu
analysed the existing structure of
the turret in detail and performed
the relevant calculations in a finite
elements model. With a team of ten
engineers drawn from different
disciplines, the company completely
modelled and calculated the
modifications and their integration
in the vessel.
On the ‘EnQuest Producer’, the turret
is secured to the ship by an on-board
rotating bearing. This method is based
on a cylindrical shaft from keel to
deck containing bearings enabling
the vessel to rotate around the turret.
The method is frequently used in areas
with extreme weather conditions.
On the top of the turret, there is
the turntable where gas and liquid
streams from the risers (flexible
hoses and pipelines) are routed to the
swivel, either combined or separately.
A swivel is an electric or hydraulic
connector that can rotate 360 degrees.
It consists of two parts: one part is
connected to the ship and one part
is connected to the seabed.
The turret deckhouse protects the
turntable of the turret from the wind
and other weather conditions,
including crashing waves.
The deckhouse is crammed with pipes
and cables that run from the ship
through the turret down to the seabed.
To retain the pipe course from the
ship to the turntable, the top of the
swivel is supported to the deckhouse.
At the bottom of the deckhouse there
are foundations for the winches used
to tension the anchor chains when
mooring the ship on the field.
The forces involved can reach up
to 250 tonnes per winch, so the
foundations must be solid.
The ‘EnQuest Producer’ is moored
using internal turret mooring.
This anchoring system allows the
vessel to rotate around its anchors
in sync with the direction of the wind
and waves. Internal turret mooring
These two parts can rotate in relation
to each other, ensuring that the crude
oil (which consists of oil, gas and
water) can be transported safely,
in a controlled way and under all
weather conditions, from the risers
Turret and deckhouse engineering
Edo Donkers: “In order to become
suitable for the new oil field, the FPSO
is equipped with more cables and
pipes, resulting in the extension of
the swivel stack and the enlargement
of the turret deckhouse to 18 metres.
Enlarging the turret deckhouse is
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performed integrally with integration
of the new mooring chain winches.
Nevesbu provided the complete
engineering for these modifications.”
Intensive involvement
“Because our collaboration was
effective and kept everything moving
at pace, EnQuest decided to bring us
in to the overall conversion team.
A Nevesbu employee was on site
once every two weeks during the
entire period prior to delivery.
The advantage is that we have many
years of experience in FPSO and ship
modifications and can take care of
the complete engineering for this,
so we were able to advise EnQuest
on a wide range of issues. What’s
more, we’ve known this vessel ever
since it underwent modification back
in the 1990s to convert it from an oil
tanker to an FPSO.”
Nevesbu received additional contracts,
including verification of the pipe
supports of the inert gas system.
This system ensures that oil stored
in the tanks cannot ignite.
Inert gas, for example CO2, is placed
like a blanket over the oil, so to
speak, preventing the formation of
an explosive mixture. The system also
allows the remaining released gas
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Picture: EnQuest.
Hubert van Strien: “EnQuest tasked
us with completing a number of work
packages for the structural integration
engineering. We consider it important
to maintain intensive contact with the
client and to remain closely involved
during the implementation, so that
we can provide advice if necessary.
So we made frequent visits to the
Hadrian Yard. During the work
a number of new issues came to
light that needed extra attention.
As we were cooperating closely
with the site team, the issues could
be addressed right away and work
was not held up.”
from the oil to be transported safely
in a controlled manner.
Edo Donkers adds: “Research showed
that the main deck beneath the
topside had to be strengthened locally.
There were easily 1,000 sites on the
deck that needed to be analysed,
reinforced, or both. We worked out
three standard options for reinforcing
the deck. To reduce the risks of delay,
we submitted the options early on
to the Lloyds classification society.
All three options were approved, after
which all the other parties involved
also accepted them. As these standard
options could be applied at several
positions, it was possible to solve
virtually all of the structural problems.”
Stability calculations
As the conversion significantly
increased the weight of the FPSO,
it was necessary to perform new
stability calculations.
Nevesbu re-performed the entire
weight calculation. At the end of
March, the final inclination test was
performed in almost six hours to
confirm the vessel’s stability, which
is extremely fast since usually these
tests take about twelve to eighteen
hours. The class organisations
attended the test.
Afterwards, the ‘EnQuest Producer’
was almost ready to be towed to
a location in the central part of the
North Sea, 310 kilometres southwest
of Aberdeen. The water depth there
is 80 metres. Since then, seven oil
production wells and two water
injection wells have been connected
to the FPSO.
First oil was achieved in late October
2015. The maximum process capacity
is 57,000 barrels of oil per day, and
the storage capacity for produced
oil is 625,000 barrels.
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Most advanced multipurpose vessel in its class
Tideway kicks
off ‘Living Stone’
construction
To further strengthen its position in the offshore renewable power generation & transportation
market, DEME’s offshore division Tideway, based in Breda, the Netherlands, has started the
construction of the multipurpose vessel ‘Living Stone’. The vessel is being built by the Spanish
shipyard LaNaval near Bilbao where at the end of 2015 the keel laying ceremony took place.
The ‘Living Stone’ will be delivered in 2017.
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The ‘Living Stone’
has been designed as
an environmentally
friendly vessel.
The ‘Living Stone’ will join the fleet
of fall-pipe vessels of Tideway which
currently includes the ‘Flintstone’,
‘Rollingstone’ and ‘Seahorse’.
Advanced
The multipurpose vessel ‘Living Stone’
will be the most advanced in its class.
The vessel features DP3 (Dynamic
Positioning 3) capability together with
an important total loading capacity
of 12,500 tons. It will be equipped
with two large 5,000 tons cable/
umbilical carrousels arranged below
deck allowing for a free deck space of
around 3,500 square metres which
accommodates the modular cable/
umbilical handling systems, remotely
operated vehicles (ROVs), the subsea
trenching tool CBT 1100 and the fallpipe system. A central moon pool of
7.7 by 7.7 metres and the installation of
a 600 ton crane for subsea installation
and removal complete this arrangement.
After completing the concept design,
Enersea Schiedam has been awarded
the basic and detailed design midJanuary for the deck lay-out and
equipment design for Tideway’s new
multipurpose vessel ‘Living Stone’.
The new vessel will be able to
accommodate up to 100 people and
will serve transport and installation
projects as well as offshore power
cable and umbilical installation,
interconnectors for the future
European super grid amongst others.
Dual fuel
The ‘Living Stone’ has been designed
as an environmentally friendly vessel
with ‘dual fuel’ main engines with
LNG being its prime fuel. In order
to operate the vessel with the lowest
possible fuel consumption while also
keeping CO2 and NOx & SOx exhaust
emissions to the strictest minimum,
LNG as fuel and biodegradable grease
and oil will be used combined with
heat recovery.
Green passport
The ‘Living Stone’ will also have
a Green Passport and the Clean Design
Notation awarded to owners and
operators who choose to design and
operate their vessels in an environmentally sustainable manner. The aim
is to reduce the vessel’s emissions and
waste so that the overall environmental
burden from shipping is reduced.
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Offshore Ship Designers president Michiel Wijsmuller:
‘Flexibility pays off’
In spite of challenging times,
Offshore Ship Designers (OSD)
recently signed three new
contracts. The first is for an
IMT2001 research vessel for
the Taiwanese Ocean Research
Institute. The vessel will be
used for supporting long-term
oceanographic observation
programs, including the
operation of unmanned ROVs,
terrain survey and mapping,
seismic pattern detection,
long-core sampling, compiling
diagrams of topology and
stratum, and performing
real-time data-processing and
sampling within its onboard
laboratory facilities.
The IMT2001 will be fitted with two
‘A’ Frames, two deck cranes, an ROV
launch and a Recovery ‘A’ Frame with
umbilical winch, streamer winch and
gun array and a MEBO200 seabed
drilling rig which can conduct core
drilling down to 200 m below the
sea floor. It can be fitted with a range
of different deck equipment spreads.
The 76 m x 16 m vessel will have
accommodation for 43 persons (crew
and scientists) and will be classed
with Taiwanese Classification Society
(CR) for worldwide operation. It will
be equipped with diesel-electric
power generation, two main azimuth
propulsion thrusters and two bow
tunnel thrusters with the dynamic
position notation DP-1.
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Michiel Wijsmuller: “In the current market we have to work
harder and show more flexibility to get new contracts.”
The vessel will be built by Triyards
Shipyard in Ho Chi Minh City and is
scheduled for delivery in August 2017.
role of emergency towage and the
deployment and recovery of buoys
and associated aids to navigation.
ETV
OSD is also working on the design of
a 67 m DP2 Emergency Towing Vessel
(ETV) for Gardline Shipping which is
being built at Yuexin Shipyard in China.
The keel laying ceremony took place
in July 2015, with the vessel due for
delivery in the second summer of 2016.
The vessel is diesel-electric powered
and designed to deliver a bollard pull
of 95 tonnes, using twin azimuth
propulsion. It includes a 150t-pull
AHTS winch and a large multi-use
working deck. The vessel is 69 x 17
m, has accommodation for 35 persons
and complies with the SPS code.
OSD was contracted to develop
a Gardline concept into a workable
design and basic design package, with
OSD Shanghai developing detailed
and production design. The new ETV
layout has been optimized for the dual
The new ETV is to replace a chartered
vessel, which is currently being operated
by Gardline and primarily working
on the Queensland coast to provide
protection of the Great Barrier Reef
from grounding and pollution incidents.
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IMT2001 research vessel for the
DP2 Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV).
Taiwanese Ocean Research Institute.
Gardline owns and operates a fleet of
oceangoing survey vessels. Gardline
Australia was subcontracted by
Australian Maritime Systems (AMS),
which has a long-term contract
with the Australian Maritime Safety
Authority (AMSA) to provide
emergency towage capability services
plus extensive maintenance and
support for aids to navigation.
IMR
A third new contract is for the design
of two 120m IMT9120 riserless light
well intervention/IMR vessels for
Austin Offshore Pte, part of Singaporebased Upstream Drilling Pte. The
diesel electric (DE) vessels can deploy
three ROVs, have a 250-tonne capacity
AHC crane and can accommodate
140 people. They will be built by
China Merchants Industry Holdings
Company, of Hong Kong.
functions, including escort operations,
harbour towage, ship handling,
offshore mooring and berthing.
The basic model tug has a LOA of
32 metres and a beam of 13.5 metres,
but the design can be tailored to
various sizes. The high forecastle
deck ensures good sea-keeping
performance. The hull is shaped with
side wings to reduce drag, to enhance
stability and to improve roll-damping.
This makes the vessel perfectly suited
for offshore towing and salvage.
The wheelhouse design gives an
excellent overview of the work-deck
during escort operations and
optimum visibility over the bow
during transit modes.
A broad tow-staple on the aft-deck
reduces moment of inclination caused
by tension on the wire, while the
spacious aft-deck itself accommodates
the towing winch. The aft bulwark
structure is outfitted with an integrated
tow-pin arrangement. A knuckle-boom
crane is fitted, with outreach over the
aft-deck area.
The tugs can be equipped with either
Voith-Schneider cycloidal propellers
(the Cyclotrac 3270 model) or
azimuthing thrusters (the Azitrac
3270 design). The propulsion drive
configuration can be adapted to
client specification – diesel-electric,
hybrid with or without batteries etc.
Depending on engine and propulsion
configuration, a bollard pull of 90
tonnes can be achieved.
These MLC-compliant tugs can be
delivered with a FiFi1 class notation.
They have accommodation for
8 to 12 persons.
OSD president Michiel Wijsmuller
said: “In the current market we have
to work harder and show more
flexibility to get new contracts.”
It is a strategy that seems to be working.
Wijsmuller concludes: “We are happy
to see that our flexibility pays off in
the form of good new contracts.”
Tractor tugs
Apart from recent contracts, OSD
presents a new series of tractor tugs
which can be used for a wide range of
A new series of tractor tugs.
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Weather-vaning tanker offloading buoy
Three times a
‘first’ for Breman
In March 2014, Breman Machinery BV based in Genemuiden, the Netherlands,
was awarded a contract for the fabrication of a weather-vaning, tanker offloading
buoy for installation on the Egina Olt field development project offshore Nigeria,
operated by Total Upstream Nigeria.
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Egina Oil Field
The turret system, designed and
engineered by National Oilwell Varco
from Norway with certifying authority
Bureau Veritas, comprises the buoy
hull, the fixed turret with mooring
and riser terminations, fluid transfer
system including swivel, all piping
and valves as well as the control
system and mooring equipment.
Breman’s scope of work includes
project management, detailed
shop-engineering, procurement,
onshore fabrication, precise
machining, assembly, testing and
pre-commissioning. Project manager
Jacob Gnodde: “Not only is this
a unique design, which has not been
fabricated before in the world, it is
also the first time for Breman to
be involved in such an innovative
project, and it is our first contract
awarded by National Oilwell Varco.
Due to all these aspects the shop
drawing engineering process of the
design was quite intensive and we
commenced with the actual fabrication
of the buoy in our facilities in August
2015 with delivery scheduled in early
August this year. The bouy itself
must be installed offshore Nigeria
in February 2017. The Egina field is
expected to come on stream in 2018.”
Breman Machinery turned from
a black smid to a highly sophisticated
steel delivery company in the
Netherlands, having been founded
in 1864. With continuous investment
in its facilities, the company has
provided fabrication services to the
offshore oil and gas and renewables
industries since the 1970s. Gnodde:
“Our modern fabrication facilities
include heavy duty machining and
rolling equipment, blast and paint
shops and extensive assembly areas.
In total around 40 members of our
professional workforce are working
on this unique turret system.”
The whole fabrication process in
Genemuiden is constantly monitored
by one Bureau Veritas surveyor,
two Total Upstream Nigeria
representatives and four National
Oilwell Varco experts.
The Egina oil field is located 150km
off the coast of Nigeria. The field is
being developed by Total Upstream
Nigeria (24%) in partnership with
CNOOC (45%), Sapetro (15%) and
Petrobras (16%). Egina is the third
deep offshore development of Total
in Nigeria. Located about 20km
away from Akpo field, Egina field
lies within the oil mining lease
block (OML) 130 and covers an
area of around 500 square miles.
It is situated at a water depth of
up to 1,750m.
The Egina field infrastructure
will include an FPSO unit, an oil
offloading terminal and subsea
production systems such as risers,
52km of oil and water injection
flowlines, 12 flexible jumpers,
20km of gas export pipelines,
80km of umbilicals, and
subsea manifolds.
Total began the development of
a new FPSO for the project. The
FPSO will measure approximately
330m in length, 61m in width and
33.5m in depth, and is expected
to have an oil storage capacity of
approximately 2.3 million barrels.
The FPSO will have topsides
modules with a gross dry weight
of 34,000t.
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World’s biggest catamaran ‘P
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n ‘Pioneering Spirit’
The 382 m long, 124 m wide
dynamically positioned platform
installation/decommissioning and
pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit is
currently being commissioned at
the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam, the
Netherlands. In the coming months,
the topsides lift system will be
tested at sea, using a 5500-tonne
test platform.
Once testing is complete, the vessel will
lift the Yme platform, offshore Norway,
for Talisman/Repsol. Removal of the
13,000-tonne mobile offshore production
unit (MOPU) is planned for the end of
the summer 2016.
In 2017, Pioneering Spirit will remove
the 23,000-tonne Brent Delta topsides,
which is located in the English sector
of the North Sea, offshore Scotland.
After that, the vessel is committed for
the removal of the remaining Brent
topsides and jacket, and installation of
three platform topsides for Statoil on the
Johan Sverdrup field in the central part
of the North Sea, offshore Stavanger.
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Close collaboration between Dutch companies Iv-Consult and Heerema
Furthering the
oil industry’s
deepwater reach
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The Kaombo Ultra-Deep Offshore project will be a major step for the oil industry
as it reaches new depths. This project involves the development of six oil fields,
located 170 kilometres off the coast of Angola in water depths of up to two kilometres.
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The SURF (Subsea Umbilicals, Risers
and Flowlines) contract was awarded
by Total E&p Angola to the Technip
Heerema Alliance in early 2014.
It is an EPCI contract, meaning that
the consortium is not only responsible
for installation but also for the design,
procurement and fabrication of the
various components included in
the SURF contract.
As part of the integrated design team,
Iv-Consult is responsible for delivering
the design of the foundation of the
Single Top Tensioned Riser (STTR)
systems. The main purpose of these
risers is to transport fluids from the
seabed to two FPSOs moored above
the oil fields.
Suction piles for STTR system
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Design: Créav Communication - All images used are merely for illustrative purposes only and are not contractually binding - Total - October 2014
The foundation system of the 18
risers consists of suction piles with
a maximum weight of approximately
200 metric ton each. This foundation
system is characterised by the fact
that suction is applied in order to
initiate penetration into the soft
clay until the piles reach their target
penetration depth. This process can
also be reversed if needed to retrieve
the pile in case of installation outside
of the predefined tolerances.
The design process started with
the optimisation of the ‘aspect ratio’,
or the length versus width ratio of
the pile. Soil behaviour, weight and
size optimisation, and installation
pressures were key parameters
used to define the optimum ratio.
The suction process during installation
posed several design challenges as
the pile should be able to withstand
the potential buckling effect as
a result of this pressure. Several
analyses were performed to assess
the pile shell behaviour while
supported by surrounding soil
and exposed to internal pressure.
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A close collaboration
between different
disciplines
The services provided by Iv-Consult
not only include the structural design,
but also interface management with
relation to other riser components
and other disciplines involved such
as procurement, fabrication, transport
and installation. The design of the
piles has been completed in close
collaboration with the foundation
department of Heerema, which has
extensive experience with installation
of suction piles. Iv-Consult reviewed
fabrication documentation as well
as paid several visits to the yards in
order to facilitate a smooth fabrication
process. As a result, valuable lessons
learned on other projects have been
put to use in the Kaombo suction
pile design.
Once installed, the riser is connected
and the pile is predominantly loaded
by a vertical tension force which is
generated by the buoyancy tank at
the top of the riser string. In addition,
horizontal forces and bending moments
are accounted for due to lateral
displacement of the riser system, which
follows water flow and FPSO drift.
A stiffened bulkhead was designed
in order to transfer forces from the
riser to the pile shell and surrounding
soil. Fatigue was not a design driver
for the foundation due to the lay
out of the rigid riser system.
However, potential fatigue impact
due to wave loading, Vortex Induced
Vibration and other sources of
fatigue loading were assessed
to confirm this assumption.
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Another important component of
the suction piles is the corrosion
protection system. This consists of
coating of the top part of the suction
pile, which remains above the mud
line and sacrificial aluminium
alloy anodes. Furthermore, the pile
is equipped with several transport
and installation aids in order to
enable installation and perform
survey activities.
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The design of the suction piles is
complete and the fabrication started
in June 2014 at two different locations. Ten piles will be fabricated in
Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)
and the remaining eight piles will
be fabricated in Porto Amboim
(Angola). The installation of the piles
is scheduled for the third quarter
of 2016 and will be performed
by Heerema’s deep water construction
vessel ‘Balder’.
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specialist/RC, Iv Consult
Due to its installation depth of
approximately 1.6 kilometres,
all installation activities will
be performed by ROV.
Installation equipment has
been designed with additional
redundancy in order to reduce
any risk for lost time during the
installation campaign.
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Merford and Siemens deliver mega project
State-of-the-art noise
enclosures for compressors
The compressors on the ‘Edvard Grieg’ oil platform, some 160 kilometres off the Norwegian
coast, as manufactured by Siemens, have been fitted with state-of-the-art noise enclosures.
The enclosures were designed and manufactured by Merford Noise Control, a Dutch company
which specialises in sound insulation. It was a mega-operation which took a year to complete.
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Artist impression of ‘Edvard Grieg’ oil platform.
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Interior of noise enclosures.
The new platform
was required to
comply in all respects
with NORSOK, strict
standards developed
by the Norwegian
petroleum industry.
For the ‘Edvard Grieg’ oil platform,
Siemens in the Netherlands was
commissioned by Aker Solutions
in Norway to develop the compressor
skids on the platform. Siemens then
appealed to Merford Noise Control
to develop and build high quality
noise enclosures for the compressors.
All parties worked intensively together
to deliver this huge and complex
project on time. And they were
successful. Recently the oil platform
went into operation.
involved in the design, production
and all the other issues. This was
absolutely necessary for the successful
completion of this project.”
The NORSOK standards are related
to nearly every aspect and every
part of every installation on the
oil platform, Schreijer explains.
“Not just to all the materials used,
but also their treatment and
processing. For example, steel may
be used from steel manufacturers
with a NORSOK certificate only.”
a way that no parts can fly off which
– as a result of the explosion – could
lead to new explosions or calamities
on other parts of the platform.”
Siemens and Merford therefore
completely recalculated the initial
design and challenged the blast
specifications. Resulting in an
optimised and weight saving blast
philosophy whereby the enclosures
can deform plastically where allowed
and deform elastically where critical
parts are fitted on the compressor skid.
NORSOK standards
Challenging specifications
Own design philosophy
The new platform was required to
comply in all respects with NORSOK,
strict standards developed by the
Norwegian petroleum industry.
Because of the noise involved in
pushing gas through the pipelines,
NORSOK stipulates that all compressor
trains must be fitted with noise
reduction enclosures that need to be
considered as working environment.
Mark Schreijer from Siemens:
“For Merford, working with NORSOK
was new. Fortunately we knew what
to do. From the very start of the
project, we were both intensively
The noise enclosures needed to be
effective in three areas. Firstly they
had to reduce noise. Pressing gas
through the pipelines is a very noisy
process, with many high tones.
This noise can rise to sound pressure
levels of approximality 95 dB(A).
The Merford enclosures easily reduce
this to well below the required level.
The enclosures must also be
explosion-proof. Stef Zoeteman
from Merford: “If there were to be
an explosion on the platform, further
escalations need to be prevented. The
noise enclosures are designed in such
Finally the enclosures had to ensure
that the compressor trains would not
be affected by weather conditions.
However, these were not the only
requirements, adds Zoeteman:
“The noise enclosures on the oil
platform were to have the design
and functionality allowing service,
maintenance and inspection.
Both for outside and inside. Because
the enclosure is a working environment
it was equipped with lifting points,
lighting, gas and fire detection and
a deluge system. We applied our
own design philosophy in this.”
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Exterior of noise enclosures.
Shipping
Shipping to Norway took place in
the spring of 2014. The completely
assembled enclosures were shipped
on specially designed transport
frames. On arrival in Norway,
the huge structures – the biggest
enclosure is 16,8 metres long,
5 metres wide, 5,6 metres high
and weighs 34,2 tons – were lifted
in one go over the compressor
skids onto the platform, leaving
only millimetres on all sides.
This was a massive and risky
operation, but was nevertheless
completed in less than an hour.
November last year the platform
started operation, and successfully.
For Siemens and Merford, the
production and delivery of the
compressor skids and the noise
enclosures were an exciting process.
“Together, we didn’t deliver a
standard solution, but a real stateof-the-art engineering product.
We should be proud” , says Zoeteman.
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Installations of noise enclosure over one of the compressor trains.
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Dutch specialist for hydraulic drive and control
Veja Mate project
great challenge
for DGI Doedijns
The offshore wind park Veja Mate is located approximately
130 kilometres north of the Eemshaven and will generate a total
capacity of 400MW. Veja Mate lies in the German part of the
North Sea, North West of the Island Borkum, 115 kilometres from
the shore. With a production of about 1.6TWh per year, the
Veja Mate wind park is one of the largest offshore wind parks
of the world. The project started late 2015 and the completion
of this project is expected in the fourth quarter of 2016
Every wind turbine foundation
exists of an XXL monopole and
a transitionpiece for the passage
to the wind turbine mast. After
the transport from the production
locations to the wind park, the
monopoles will be installed by a custom
made jack-up installation vessel
with a pile gripper frame on board.
DGI Doedijns has received a challenging
order to deliver and install the
complete hydraulic installation,
including e-controls for the
monopoles of the wind turbines.
This kind of order is nothing new to
DGI Doedijns. Similar projects have
been executed in the past, such as the
West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind
Farm in 2013 and Sandbank 24 in
2015. The pile gripper for the Veja
Mate wind park will be used for the
placement of 67 XXL monopoles,
each weighing up to 1300 tons a
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diameter up to 7.8 metres and a
length of 85 metres.
Complete package
When speaking with Oscar Bik,
Manager Offshore Hydraulics at
DGI Doedijns about the execution
of this project, he says: “The Veja
Mate project is a great challenge
for Doedijns. We are delivering
a complete package, where we
unburden the customer as much
as possible. This complete package
includes the project management,
engineering, production, installation
and commissioning. During the
project we care for intensive
customer contact, so we get the exact
requirements out on the table which
enable us to prevent any unnecessary
surprises for the customer. Even
though we have an extensive
experience in taking care of a
complete package like the one for
Veja Mate, the customer’s specifications
and requirements are and will always
be unique. Each project has its own
merits; it can be turnkey or designed
and development through consultancy.
In every project we undertake, our
engineering teams closely communicate
with the client to establish the
project’s exact parameters. With
every project we execute, we greatly
value the communication between our
engineering teams and the customer.
We think it’s important to keep
a strong focus on the required
customization, for both the
customer and ourselves!”
XXL challenge
Especially the length and the weight
of the XXL monopoles that need to
be placed for the Veja Mate project
are a reason for unique and specific
requirements. Due to their length of
85 metres it is very difficult to restrain
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Pile gripper built by Breman Offshore.
the monopole during placement with
only one pile gripper. That’s why two
pile grippers that are placed directly
above each other will be used, which
jointly bring the pole in the right
position and keep it there.
Not only the length of the XXL
monopoles is a cause for possible
instability, also the influence of the
sea is a force that should be taken
into account structurally. To prevent
the heave on the pole from damaging
the complete construction, this
installation is provided with a heave
compensation system. We thus absorb
a greater amount of energy than the
installed drive power of the Hydraulic
Power Unit. Therefore we have a huge
challenge with regard to the hydraulic
engineering as well as the engineering
of the software. Especially if one
considers that there are eight cylinders
in a diaphragm shape to be able to
follow the pole in all directions.
DGI Doedijns has delivered
the following for the
Veja Mate project:
Hydraulic Power Unit in high cube
• Hydraulic Power Unit in High
Cube container provided with
3x90kW power
• Installed cooler of 300kW
• Motion compensated
diaphragma drive
• More than 30 manifolds
• PLC including software engineering and wireless remote control
• Software which is tested by
means of a simulation model
• Cylinders up to size D500
and 4500 millimetre stroke
• More than a kilometre
of piping installed
container provided with 3x90 kW
power.
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Delivered by BigLift’s ‘Happy Star’
Key part of Yadana field
extension offshore
SapuraAcergy awarded BigLift Shipping the transportation contract for a wellhead production topside
module for the Yadana gas field, off Myanmar. BigLift had to load the module in Ulsan, Korea, and
take it to the Yadana field, where SapuraAcergy’s S3000 would lift it off and install it onto its offshore
foundation. Happy Star was scheduled for the task. She loaded the topside module of just under
1,000 mT with her two 900 mT heavy lift mast cranes at Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan.
The topside module is part of a
production platform in the Yadana
gas field, which is operated by Total
Myanmar E&P. It contracted
SapuraAcergy as the EPCI contractor
which in turn organised the transport
and installation for the platform.
There was very little lead time for
the project, with BigLift Shipping only
having around eight weeks to prepare
before the scheduled loading date.
In this short time frame, all the
engineering had to be done, including
the planning of lifting operations,
design and structural verification
of the grillage and sea fastening.
Lifting and loading
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The most critical element in the
project was the lifting operation and
the cargo had several limitations in
relation to the offshore discharge.
A major challenge was the orientation
of the topside module on deck which
had to be exactly in position for the
unloading operation. To achieve the
correct orientation while loading, the
topside module had to be lifted from
the grillage on the quayside, brought
above the cargo deck between the
cranes, and then rotated to its final
position. But given ‘Happy Star’s wide
beam and cranes there was ample
stability and even a heavy load like
this one does not require any
additional stability pontoons. Thus the
shortest execution time and safest
operation possible is ensured.
The module’s eccentric centre of
gravity and size created challenges
in terms of lifting clearances, safe
working load (SWL) and outreach.
In the planning stages, the comprehensive 3D simulations showed that
when the module was turned to its
final position, the minimum clearance
between the cargo and ‘Happy Star’s
crane would be a mere 700 mm!
And the weeks of preparation paid off.
With the support and cooperation of
the client, the lift was executed
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perfectly and the loading went
according to plan.
‘Happy Star’ lived up to all the expectations
and successfully performed the job
Sea fastening
A further challenge was to design
a grillage and sea fastening system
capable of taking the anticipated
loads and in compliance with our
client’s requirements. After some
rough manual calculations and
sketches, a detailed FEM analysis
was carried out to prove the integrity
of the proposed system and to identify
and improve on any weak spots.
The design of the sea fastening system
focused on easy access to the cutting
locations at no more than eye height.
This dispensed with the need to work
at height offshore, increased safety
and enhanced the ease of operation at
the discharge location. The workshop
drawings and Material Take Off list
were delivered in time to pre-fabricate
all components, even though there
were several revisions due to changes
in the module constraints. In all,
this entire process was executed in
approximately six weeks.
Practical approach
BigLift Shipping’s practical approach
to the project convinced both Sapura
and Total that BigLift knows the ropes.
she is designed for.
Different engineering methods
- elementary and fast as well as
complicated and thorough - were used
where necessary and applicable. The
ability to distinguish between necessary and ‘nice-to-have’ activities were
weighed off against the short time
frame of the whole project.
For this type of job, the practical
knowledge and experience of the
cargo superintendents, project
engineers and ship’s crew is crucial
for the success of the project and it
was highly appreciated by the client.
onto its offshore foundations.
Discharge
The discharge operation, including
the mooring operations and lifting
preparations, had been planned as
carefully as the loading sequence.
‘Happy Star’ was moored to two
pre-laid bow anchors, and kept
in place by a stern tug. Happy
Star was designed with these
special offshore projects in mind.
Therefore, its comprehensive mooring
arrangement includes Smit Brackets
and strengthened bollards so that no
additional measures are needed for
the execution of these operations.
After a short sea voyage ‘Happy
Star’ arrived at the discharge location
offshore Myanmar and waited for
Sapura Acergy’s S3000. The impressive
crane successfully lifted the module
in a single lift operation, using the
slings already laid out on the
module’s deck and later installed it
We look back on a project with
great challenges, which were all
solved to the satisfaction of the
parties concerned. ‘Happy Star’
lived up to all the expectations
and successfully performed
the job she is designed for.
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Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2016
Entering a new era
After a very successful eighth edition of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC)
preparations for the ninth OEEC are well underway. On 25 and 26 October 2016 Amsterdam RAI
will again host this international gathering of the whole offshore energy industry, including oil and
gas, to offshore wind and also marine energy. As a leading exhibition OEEC covers not only the
exploration and production of conventional oil & gas energy resources, but also the renewable
part of the energy mix such as offshore wind and marine energy.
OEEC offers the international offshore
energy community the opportunity
to meet around 11,500 professionals,
from engineering to sales, from
procurement to finance and from
project management to executive
management. Each attendee has
access to high end conference sessions
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and over 650 exhibiting companies
showcasing their latest solutions.
Reaching potential
The current oil prices and the rise of
the renewables have led us to believe
2016 will see the industry entering
a new area, which we have chosen
as theme for OEEC 2016. The theme
will also be reflected in the extensive
conference program where subjects
like subsea processing & infrastructure, decommissioning, knowledge
management, asset integrity, supply
chain optimization and LNG will have
the focus. Led by expert speakers and
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The symposium
will be held in the
Netherlands for
the first time on
25 and 26 October.
moderators. Aside from this, the
keynotes will be back again this year.
Join management level speakers to
discuss a way forward during the
Industry Panel and the Human
Capital Panel.
The Offshore WIND conference (OWC),
taking place on 24 and 25 October as
part of OEEC will further strengthen
OEECs connection to renewables.
A promising future awaits the offshore
wind industry, as long at the full
potential can be tapped. During OWC
October, which will be held for the
seventh time, speakers from the industry
will discuss how more business
opportunities can be found and how
the industry can reach potential.
OTEC and Marine Energy Event
meet OEEC
The Ocean Thermal Energy
Conversion (OTEC) symposium is an
annual meeting that brings together
OTEC industry, researchers and market
experts from all over the world.
For those unfamiliar with OTEC,
this innovation used the natural
temperature difference in tropical
oceans between surface water and
deep water to generate power.
The symposium will be held in the
Netherlands for the first time on
25 and 26 October, partially hosted
at OEEC creating a strong bond for
OEECs focus on marine energy, alongside
offshore wind and oil & gas. Attendance
can be combined with the Marine
Energy event in partnership with
EWA, also to be held during OEEC.
More information on the new
exhibition are can be found on
www.offshoreenergy.biz/newhome,
which includes a 360 degree
walkthrough within the new halls.
A new home
Since OEECs inception in 2008 the
exhibition and conference have
experiences continual growth, and
ambition the organization naturally
wants to continue. In that respect,
OEEC will have a new home this year
and has been moved to halls 1, 2, 4
and 5 of the Amsterdam RAI.
This move will allow a new and even
better experience for both exhibitors
and visitors. The new area is spacious
and attractive with more room
allocated to the industry’s products,
innovations and services, allowing
more and improved exhibition
possibilities. The organization is
certain this will lead the way to
increased networking opportunities,
meetings and discussions.
Opening hours
Exhibition
Tuesday 25th of October | 09.30-18.00
Wednesday 26th of October | 09.30-18.00
Conference
Tuesday 25th of October | 09.30-16.30
Wednesday 26th of October | 09.30-18.00
www.offshore-energy.biz
Offshore Wind (OWC)
Monday 24th of October | 11:00-18:00
Tuesday 25th of October | 08:00-12:00
www.offshorewindconference.biz
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Multidisciplinary engineering firm KCI
Expert engineering for
every step in the process
KCI is a multidisciplinary engineering firm providing full design, engineering and consultancy services
to the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Equipment and Observation Wheels market. The Schiedam-based
company covers the complete chain in Oil & Gas asset development. From geological surveys,
field development, concept selection and conceptual design, right up to the actual construction,
installation and future decommissioning. From being a specialist in detailed design, KCI has
developed into an all round engineering company, strong in concept and consultancy,
along with design and execution management.
The staff at KCI has played key roles
in the engineering and delivery of
a variety of offshore facilities worldwide for almost 30 years and is well
respected in the Maritime and Offshore
industry. The company achieves
competitive differentiation through
independence and a flexible approach
to business. Remarkable innovations
and specialties are the movable
multipurpose platforms, solutions to
optimise marginal fields, risk analyses,
smart greenfield developments, flow
assurance analyses, complex subsea
designs for pipelines, risers, spool
& jumpers, HSE consultancy and
decommissioning. Its activities have
shown a steady and healthy growth
over the years and have supplied a
good workload to the team of over
150 highly qualified engineers. The
dramatic fall of crude oil prices during
the last two years has also influenced
KCI’s order-book. In order to cope with
the decline in Oil & Gas orders KCI
decided to better market its expertise
especially in upcoming areas such
as decommissioning and compliance.
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KCI already had a differentiation
strategy covering three different
markets. The strategic entry in the
Renewable market ten years ago
has very well paid off with the
involvement in the design and
engineering of over 15 Offshore Wind
farms up to now. Recently more
marketing effort has been put on the
Observation Wheels market in which
KCI can call itself a true entrepreneur.
As per February 1 2016, Jan Willem
van Bloois joined KCI as Director Sales
& Marketing. ”Obviously an important
part of my role is to secure new
contracts. Together with the team of
sales engineers, we are also identifying
new opportunities. We are renowned for
innovative concept and are confident
that this is the right way to stay
successful. KCI has an enormous track
record, which is a great benefit. In depth
expertise and having the best engineers
on board, is a very solid basis.”
Strong network
The 55-year-old Jan Willem van
Bloois is certainly not a stranger to
the international offshore Oil & Gas
industry. After completing his study
as mechanical engineer, he started his
career in the automotive sector but
found his true passion in the Offshore
& Marine industry. He worked in
various positions at Royal IHC for the
international offshore, dredging and
wet mining markets. Van Bloois was
involved in the development of the
first jumbo hopper dredgers as well
as in new business development in
Dubai, Singapore, India, Nigeria and
South Africa. As from 2011 he was
heading the pioneering role of IHC
in the development of the deep sea
mining technology. Managing the
Deep Sea Mining & Dredging group
he extended the activities of the
international dredging industry to
ultra-deep water. He was responsible
for the set-up of OceanFlore, a joint
venture between DEME and Royal IHC
for offshore mining services. In
October 2014 Van Bloois joined Van
Oord Offshore and was responsible for
Business Development of EPC projects
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‘My goals are to achieve the targets
by ideation, taking responsibility,
arranging and activation’
Jan Willem van Bloois
for shallow water pipe laying, subsea
rock installation and single point
moorings.
With his experience and background
in engineering KCI’s plans are for
van Bloois a great opportunity.
“My career is based on creativity
and entrepreneurship. New commercial and innovative technical
developments always have my highest
interest and is my personal strength.
This has led to significant progress
and international success for the
companies I was working for in the
past. Hands on pioneering and drive
are essential aspects in the way of
achieving the targets. Listening to our
customers is first priority. Important is
the definition of strategies leading to
growth based on opportunities in the
market. It requires insight, creativity
and energy. Pioneering requires trust
and persuasiveness. Realisation needs
thoroughness and persistence.
My goals are to achieve the targets
by ideation, taking responsibility,
arranging and activation. It is an
honour to work with the KCI team.
By having the best engineers on
board, KCI has the unique ability
to turn today’s ideas into tomorrow’s
winning designs. In combination
with the highest level of collaboration
with the technical teams of our
customers and our partners, we are
able to implement the most cost
effective solutions for our clients
and to optimize operational capability,
so that they can continue to produce
energy profitiably for now and in
the future”.
Decommissioning
One of the challenging opportunities
KCI is focussing on these days is
decommissioning. A large number
of platforms in especially the North
Sea will face decomminssioning in
the years ahead. For the entire
decommissioning, removal operators
need expert services covering
planning and reversed engineering,
risk and safety management and the
environment for all offshore facilities.
The KCI decommissioning services
cover: removal, disposal, remediation
and environmental studies; modelling
and sampling; waste mapping and
handling; permitting and regulatory
compliance; as-left assessments;
impact assessments programme
and decommissioning plans; HAZID
and safety screening; removal
of equipment with NORM; site
inspections and weight estimations;
stress analyses, lifting eye
check,lifting & rigging procedures,
transportation and sea fastening.
Van Bloois with a last remark:
“KCI guides its customers through
a complete project. From advice in the
phases of acquisition and field development through to fabrication & installation management and considerations
how to decommission the structure in
the future. We take care of concept,
basic, and detailed engineering and
continuously nourish our organization
with feedback from every stage of the
project. In this way we are constantly
improving our high level of engineering
knowledge and smart tools.”
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Orga Offshore Schiedam
Offshore helideck safety
improved with innovative
windsock design
Following the recent launch of the world’s first internally-illuminated LED windsock with integrated
aviation obstruction light (AOL) option, Daniel Powell – Product Group Manager for Helideck Lighting
at Orga Offshore – talks about the windsock’s new design and why supply chain innovation is vital
for the oil and gas sector.
Daniel Powell has worked at Orga for
the last 18 years during which time he
has spearheaded the development of
Orga’s helideck lighting system since
2008. Looking back on bringing the
new internally-illuminated LED
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windsock to market, he is the first
to acknowledge the integral role that
Orga’s investment in research and
development (R&D) has played in
shaping the success of the windsock
and, indeed, all Orga products.
Launch
“Having our own R&D capability to
complement our manufacturing skills
commands a real strategic advantage,”
says Powell. “By having our own R&D
team, we are able to keep ahead of the
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competition by driving continual
technological innovation to develop
new products and to keep improving
existing ones.”
The launch of the new windsock
concludes the first phase of a major
upgrade programme to Orga’s helideck
lighting range of products, which
is expected to be completed by the
end of 2016. Another industry first
for Orga, Powell expects the new
technologically advanced windsock
to be fully accepted by industry.
LED
“We have moved from a halogen to a
LED low power floodlight to internally
light the windsock and positioned the
LED light source for the rotating light
in the base unit,” he explains, “but it
is the capability to use the same LED
light source for the AOL, if the
option is required, that is unique.”
The windsock’s LED light unit
comprises of two sections: a central
section emits white light to internally
illuminate the windsock, and an outer
circle section emits red light (10 or
32cd) for the AOL when activated.
With the light source contained in
the base unit, the intelligent design
negates the need for a complex and
maintenance intensive slip ring to
convey power to the rotating light.
Powell clarifies that the light is
redirected by precision-cut,
beam-shaping optic lenses and
reflector optics located in the
windsock’s rotating top section.
Asia where operators demand
equipment that can withstand highambient temperatures of +50°C.
Standardising the windsock for global
use and integrating the AOL capability
means that not only can we meet our
customers’ global needs, but also by
stripping back complexity we can,
in turn, help lower operating costs.”
However, as Powell is quick to point
out: “Safety cannot be compromised
when optimising costs.” The windsock
is designed to help pilots ensure a safe
landing and take-off by indicating
the wind-speed and direction in all
weather conditions, day or night.
“We use high-grade materials and
cutting-edge components to protect
sensitive electronics and minimise
maintenance requirements while
excellent thermal management gives
the longest possible operating life,”
reveals Powell. “And by internally
illuminating the windsock, we can
prevent floodlight glare to the pilots.
All of this secures increased safety
for routine offshore helicopter
operations,” he adds.
Lower costs
While safety is foremost on everyone’s
agenda, finding ways to lower
operational costs has also been a top
priority for the offshore oil and gas
industry recently. In this low oil
price environment, pursuing and
implementing efficiency is now
more important than ever stresses
Powell, citing DNV GL Chief Executive
Officer, Remi Eriksen, who has called
on the industry to take advantage
of the current climate to focus
on removing inefficiencies from
operations by adopting supply
chain innovation.
Looking ahead, Powell believes that
optimising performance and lowering
maintenance costs, by adopting the
latest supply chain innovation, could
be a key to survival for many oil and
gas companies amid the ‘lower-forlonger’ oil price environment.
Temperature
Highlighting additional features,
Powell continues: “The new windsock
is Zone 1 ATEX and IECEx certified
and complies to CAP437 and ICAO.
We have also extended the operating
temperature range (- 20 to +60°C) for
use in the Middle East and South East
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KCI is a multidisciplinary engineering firm
providing full design, engineering and
consultancy services to the Oil & Gas,
Renewables, Equipment and Observation
Wheels market.
Creative thinking is our strength. We develop
innovative concepts for our clients and turn
today’s ideas into tomorrow’s winning designs.
This unique ability originates from in depth
expertise within the complete life cycle and
from having the best engineers on board.
KCI the engineers B.V.
Westpoint 2
De Brauwweg 60
We design and engineer:
•Complete platforms and infrastructure for
the Oil & Gas and Renewables Industry
•Deck lay outs, cable & pipe laying
solutions for Marine Environment
• Great observation wheels
3125 AE Schiedam
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)104 270 399
mail
[email protected]
site
www.kci.nl
Different dimensions come to life at KCI and are
all entwined. Our market segments Oil & Gas,
Renewables, Equipment and Wheels reinforce
each other and offer our clients great expertise.
With our disciplines : Hydrodynamics,
Structural, Mechanical equipment, Subsea,
Process, Piping, Electricals, Instrumentation
and Controls we take care of concept, basic and
detailed engineering and continuously nourish
our organization with feedback from every
stage of the project. In this way we are
constantly improving our high level engineering
knowledge and smart tools. Our goal is to
implement cost effective solutions for our
clients and to optimize operational capability.
We are specialists in decommissioning
projects from the feasibility until detailed
engineering phase.
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Kenz Figee Group designs, builds and services
high-end hoisting and lifting equipment for the
offshore Oil & Gas and Wind industries. Our
decades of experience and our constant focus on
innovation allow us to offer one of the best
portfolios in the industry; both standard as well
as custom made equipment.
Kenz Cranes
Kenz Cranes, a part of the Kenz Figee Group, is a
well-known designer and manufacturer of various
types of cranes and related lifting equipment for
the offshore industry. Products include:
• Ram Luffing Cranes
• Boom Hoist (Rope Luffing)Cranes
• Knuckle Boom Cranes
• Wind Turbine Installation Cranes
• Special projects
Kenz Figee Group
P.O. Box 235
1500 EE Zaandam
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)756 810 410
mail
[email protected]
site
www.kenz-figee.com
full spectrum after-sales service for our
own equipment as well as that of other
manufacturers.
Services include:
• Maintenance and Repair
•Inspections
•Modifications
• Minor and Major Overhauls
• Lifetime Extensions
Kenz Crane Services
Our well-trained service professionals can deliver
Engineering
Kenz Figee’s engineering department (Dutch
Crane Engineering) specializes in the design and
modification of on- and offshore hoisting and
lifting equipment in various markets, all with a
focus on solutions up to 1500t.
Services include:
• Concept and Design Engineering
• Mechanical and Structural Engineering
•Simulations
• Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering
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With 40 years of experience, privately owned
Orga Offshore
Dutch company Orga is a world leader in the
Orga Offshore provides customised solutions for
development and manufacture of state-of-the-
the offshore oil and gas industry, specialising in
art navigational aids, obstruction lighting,
the design and manufacture of gas hazardous
solar and backup power supply systems and
area certified navigational aid systems that are
explosion-proof solutions for customers in the
reliable in the harshest environments.
offshore, petrochemical and aviation industries.
Orga BV
Strickledeweg 13
3125 AT Schiedam
The Netherlands
phone
+31 (0)102 085 555
[email protected]
site
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Orga products are sold worldwide and meet
As a responsible member of the offshore
both local and international code requirements.
community Orga Offshore works with
Orga’s sustained success is attributable to a
regulatory bodies, designing and making
constant focus on innovation, a powerful set
prototypes for evaluation testing and trials
of core competences, a profound understanding
in the development of new standards and
of the offshore and aviation environments,
specifications.
meeting customer needs and a broad pioneering
product portfolio of exceptional quality.
www. orga.nl
P25
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Dutch Pavilion
at OTC 2016
BigLift
Vryhof
Huisman
Van
Aalst
2233
Airborne
EMCE
Breman
Van
Beest
OSD
A. Hak
Tideway
BargeMaster
MARIN
Seaway Bayards
Heavy
Lifting
Doedijns
Bakker
Jumbo
Keppel
9
Bronswerk Hatenboer
Water
SIRI
JB
Systems
Interdam
IMT
IRO
Frames
Damen
IHC
2531
2327
Van Oord
2427
Trap
Heerema
Seatools
SPT
Ampelmann
UOS
Van Dam
2625
Allseas
Mammoet
2317
Company
Booth Number
Company
2517
2617
Booth Number
Company
Booth Number
A. Hak Industrial Services 2327
Huisman Equipment 2327
Van Beest 2427
Airborne Oil & Gas 2427
IMT 2531
Van Aalst Marine & Offshore
2427
Allseas Group 2617
InterDam 2531
Van Dam 2517
Ampelmann Operations 2517
JB Systems Industrial Automation 2531
Van Oord Offshore 2625
Vryhof Anchors 2233
Bakker Sliedrecht
2531
Jumbo Offshore 2625
Barge Master
2327
Keppel Verolme
2625
Bayards Aluminium Constructies 2531
Mammoet Holding 2517
Biglift Shipping
2427
MARIN2427
Van Heck 2531
Breman Machinery
2427
Offshore Ship Designers 2327
Techno Fysica 2531
Bronswerk Heat Transfer 2531
Royal IHC
2625
Hydrodiesel / CSH
2531
Damen Shipyards Gorinchem
2625
Seatools 2517
Port of Den Helder
2531
DGI (Doedijns)
2531
Seaway Heavy Lifting
2531
Iv-Group2531
EMCÉ Winches 2427
Siri Marine 2531
WestHolland FIA
2531
Frames 2531
SPT Offshore
2517
Red Box Energy Services
2531
Tideway2427
Yellow & Finch Publishers
2531
United Offshore Services
TrustLube2531
Hatenboer-Water2531
Heerema Group
2317
2517
Shared IRO booth 2531
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www.ahak.nl
A.Hak
P.O. Box 151
4190 CD Geldermalsen
The Netherlands
phone +31 0)345 579 211
[email protected]
Airborne Oil & Gas
Monnickendamkade 1
1967 EC IJmuiden
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)255 763 554
[email protected]
A.Hak is a family-owned group of companies
that delivers solutions for the infrastructure
for oil and gas, water, electricity and renewable
energy, both onshore and offshore.
A.Hak has 53 years of experience in the oil and
gas industry. The group regards safety and quality
as its top priorities and has the certificates
and references to back-up that claim.
With its headquarters in the Netherlands,
A.Hak operates worldwide from locations
on all five continents.
Services include engineering, construction,
commissioning and maintenance. Specialized
subsidiaries that offer services such as drilling,
(offshore) pipe coating, testing, inspection
and cleaning make the group truly all-round.
www.airborneoilandgas.com
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Airborne Oil & Gas is the world’s first
and leading manufacturer of fully bonded,
Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP) for
the most demanding offshore and subsea
applications. TCP is a fully bonded solid
wall pipe with glass or carbon fibre
reinforcements, completely embedded
within the thermoplastic material.
The pipe’s inner liner, composite laminate and
external coating are all melt-fused, ensuring
a bond between the layers as strong and durable
as the base materials. The result is a strong
and robust spoolable pipe, manufactured in
continuous lengths, completely impervious
to corrosion and with unsurpassed toughness,
impact resistance and residual strength.
www.allseas.com
The Swiss-based Allseas Group S.A., founded
in 1985 and headed by Edward Heerema, is
a world leading contractor in offshore pipeline
installation, heavy lift and subsea construction.
Allseas Group S.A.
Route de Pra de Plan 18, Case Postale 411
1618 Châtel-Saint-Denis
Switzerland
phone +41 21 948 3500
fax
+41 21 948 3599
Experts in the execution of large and complex
projects, we provide support to clients in the
conceptual design stage and offer services for
project management, engineering, fabrication,
procurement, installation and commissioning.
www.ampelmann.nl
The vision of Ampelmann is to make
offshore access as easy as crossing the street.
The unique Ampelmann systems with fully
motion compensating gangways allow safe,
efficient and reliable transfers of personnel
and cargo from vessels to offshore oil & gas
platforms, turbines, FPSO’s and all other
fixed and floating structures at sea.
Ampelmann
Kluyverweg 1
2629 HS Delft
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)202 400 121
[email protected]
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We operate worldwide with the pipelay vessels
Solitaire, Audacia, Lorelay and Tog Mor,
and the support vessel Calamity Jane.
The 382 m long, 124 m wide heavy lift/pipelay
vessel Pioneering Spirit, will be ready for
offshore operations in the summer of 2016.
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Over 2 million people have already walked
to work safely on more than 150 projects
worldwide. Ampelmann has offices in Aberdeen,
Delft, Brunei, Houston, Qatar, Rio de Janeiro
and Singapore.
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www.bakkersliedrecht.com
Bakker Sliedrecht designs, assembles, installs
and maintains complex electrical installations.
In the marine sector we focus on offshore,
dredging, oil & gas applications.
Bakker Sliedrecht B.V.
P.O. Box 25
3360 AA Sliedrecht
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)184 436 666
[email protected]
Bakker Sliedrecht is your partner for electrical
solutions throughout the entire life of your
assets. From the new build stage, through
operations, and extending the life time,
we offer tailor made consulting, engineering,
installation and maintenance services.
Stand 2531
We develop suitable and reliable solutions
in line with your requirements, f.e. replacing
obsolete systems and reducing your total cost
of ownership by modifying your electrical
installation. We support your projects 24/7
around the world.
We take care of it.
Stand 2327
www.barge-master.com
Barge Master
Fascinatio Boulevard 882a
2909 VA Capelle a/d IJssel
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)104 090 060
mailinfo@@barge-master.com
At Barge Master, everything evolves around
motion compensation systems, helping our
customers to fight the elements they face
offshore. The power of water and wind can be
overwhelming, but that’s why we love our job.
The passion for technology induces us to design
and develop motion compensation systems
with the sole purpose to increase safety during
offshore operations, reducing downtime and
total costs as a favorable effect.
Barge Master is a young, service-oriented
engineering company with Dutch roots.
We understand what effect the elements have
on our customers offshore projects. By joining
forces with them, we create innovative solutions
to ensure safe and on time operations.
www.bayards.nl
Bayards
Veerweg 2
2957 CP Nieuw-Lekkerland
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)184 683 000
[email protected]
Bayards has been designing, engineering,
manufacturing and installing complex aluminium
structures for over half a century. We have
contributed to prestigious offshore projects all
over the world for clients like BP, Statoil, Shell
and ExxonMobil and have successfully developed
and supplied offshore structures, including:
• Helidecks
• Living quarters
• Antenna/stair towers
• Hand railing
• Wind/heat shields
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• Safety gates
• Flex/swing load barriers
• Telescopic gangways
• Helicopter hangars
With our extensive knowledge and experience,
we are able to provide our clients with innovative
solutions. Our structures meet the highest quality
standards and they are built in accordance with
the latest international safety and environmental
requirements.
www.bigliftshipping.com
BigLift Shipping is a world leading heavy lift
shipping company, operating to the highest
standards of safety, operational reliability and
strict time schedules. A great variety of heavy
and over-sized cargoes is carried worldwide
by its fleet of fifteen specially built vessels.
Stand 2427
All vessels are equipped with their own gear
with lifting capacities up to 1,800 mt and
some have a ro-ro capability for loads as
high as 2,500 mt.
BigLift Shipping is KEY IN HEAVY LIFT
BigLift Shipping
Radarweg 36
1042 AA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)204 488 302
[email protected]
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www.breman-machinery.nl
Breman Machinery makes components for
builders of machinery, engineering bureaus and
industrial end users, such as; offshore companies,
the military, aerospace companies and other
industrial firms. From simple structures to complex
mechanical components. Work-pieces of high
precision, often with extreme dimensions and
weights. Work-pieces that weigh tens or even
hundreds of tonnes and are made to a precision
of a hundredth of a millimeter.
They have the people, machines and facilities
under their own roof.
Breman Machinery B.V.
Sasdijk 20
8281 BM Genemuiden
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)383 855 373
[email protected]
www.bronswerk.com
Bronswerk Heat Transfer has earned a
worldwide reputation for its expertise and
know-how for the design and manufacture
of complete custom-built heat transfer
equipment. We have the know-how, expertise,
service and continuing product development
in our equipment and solutions for all kind of
heat exchange applications at the heart of our
customers’ plants all over the world.
Bronswerk Heat Transfer BV
Stationsweg 22
3862 CG Nijkerk
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)33 2472 500
[email protected]
www.damen.com
Damen Shipyards Group operates 32
shipbuilding and repair yards and delivers
vessels and components in over 100 countries.
Based on its unique, standardised ship-design
concept Damen is able to guarantee consistent
quality.
Damen Shipyards Group
P.O. Box 1
4200 AA Gorinchem
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)183 639 911
[email protected]
Furthermore, modular construction, keeping
vessels in stock and thorough R&D leads to
short delivery times and reliable performance.
www.doedijns.com
DGI DOEDIJNS
DGI Doedijns – is specialist in hydraulic
engineering and production. For every
situation in which you need hydraulic
engineering and electrical control systems,
we create high quality and durable solutions
that meet client requirements and offers added
value. If needed we jointly execute large
complex projects and handle your complete
project management.
Doedijns B.V.
Coenecoop 103 - 105
2741 PH Waddinxveen
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0))182 302 888
[email protected]
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All machining and non-machining processing
of (heavy) materials
• welding and structures
• assembly and fitting
• corrosion protection
ISO9001, ISO3834, EN 1090-1 and VCA**-certified.
Extreme precision!
Breman Machinery Plaatwalserij Purmerend Breman Offshore
See also Page 65
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Bronswerk consists of a team of highly qualified
specialists in a range of disciplines working
together to provide an intensive, personal
service to their clients. We have the knowledge
to design and manufacture in accordance
with several foreign codes and to additional
specifications.
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Damen offers a wide range of products,
including tugs, workboats, naval and patrol
vessels, high-speed craft, cargo vessels,
dredgers, offshore vessel, ferries, pontoons
and superyachts.
In addition, Damen Shiprepair & Conversion
has a worldwide network of 15 repair and
conversion yards with dry docks ranging
up to 420 x 80 metres.
Stand 2531
Our core technologies are Hydraulic Integrated
Motion Control Systems, Components and
Sub-Assemblies, Filtration Solutions, and Valve
Automation Systems. Our Filtration Solutions
have been brought on the market under the
brand name RMF Systems and are worldwide
available via a dedicated distribution network.
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www.emce.com
Emcé every Winch a Winner
EMCE Winches
‘s Gravendamseweg 53
2215 TC Voorhout
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)252 214080
[email protected]
Founded on over 75 years of manufacturing
excellence, Emcé has grown to become one of the
world’s most respected producers of high quality,
high performance winches, capstans and hoisting
equipment.
Stand 2427
Although we continue to design a wide variety
of products for the fishing, shipbuilding and civil
engineering industries, our output has expanded
to include bespoke solution for the offshore oil
and gas industry.
Emcé Winches are now found on vessels
installations and drilling rigs the world over.
www.frames-group.com
Frames is the vital link between the well and
the pipeline in the international oil and gas
industry. We provide a wide range of
products and services in three segments:
onshore, offshore, and floaters.
Frames
Raoul Wallenbergplein 29
2404 ND Alphen aan den Rijn
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)172 464 200
[email protected]
Together, we design, build and deliver
separation technology, oil and gas processing,
flow control and safeguarding systems and
modules, even integrated solutions such as
total plants.
Stand 2531
At Frames we work directly with our clients,
one-on-one. Our employees are educated,
experienced and qualified with all relevant
certificates.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, Frames
has more than 500 employees working in
16 offices worldwide.
Stand 2531
www.hatenboer-water.com
Hatenboer-Water
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)10 409 12 00
Singapore:
phone +65 65 158 021
[email protected]
With the expertise of over a 100 dedicated water
specialists, in-house engineering, design and
production Hatenboer-Water supplies solutions
for all your water-related challenges. A track
record of more than a thousand maritime water
treatment units worldwide is proof of our high
standards. Integrated in our total scope of supply;
from the supply of standard products such as a
pump or filter, carrying out risk analyses or
sampling, right through to the supply of
completely integrated, skid built, custom-made
fresh water systems.
Systems like RO water makers, hydrophore units,
hot water modules and water treatment systems.
Tailored to the conditions, both for retrofit as new
buildings.
www.hmc-heerema.com
Heerema Marine Contractors
Vondellaan 47
2332 AA Leiden
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)71 5799 000
[email protected]
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is a world
leading marine contractor in the international
offshore oil and gas industry. HMC excels at
transporting, installing and removing offshore
facilities. These include fixed and floating
structures, subsea pipelines and infrastructures
in shallow waters and (ultra) deep waters.
Stand 2317
Headquartered in Leiden, our services
encompass engineering, planning, logistics,
project management and execution of projects
worldwide. We are proud of our excellence
in project management and engineering, our
passionate workforce and a fleet that includes
formidable heavy lift and deepwater
construction vessels.
HMC manages the entire supply chain of
offshore construction, from design through
to completion.
See also back cover.
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www.huismanequipment.com
Worldwide operating companywith extensive
experience in the design and manufacturing
of heavy construction equipment.
Our equipment is designed and manufactured
under own management, from concept to
delivery. A dedicated operating service team
of skilled professionals is on stand-by to provide
advice, training and service support before,
during and after delivery.
Huisman
P.O. Box 150
3100 AD Schiedam
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)88 0702 222
[email protected]
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cranes • Leg encircling cranes • Heavy lift
and offshore mast cranes • Sheerleg cranes
• Compact ringer cranes
Pipelay • Flex-lay • Rigid-lay • Reel-lay
• S-lay • J-lay • Multi-lay
Drilling • Land and Offshore Containerised
Drilling Unit • Well Intervention Systems
• Drillships • Semi-submersible Drilling Rigs
Winches - Heave Compensation Systems Vessel Designs
Cranes • Pedestal mounted cranes • (Hybrid
boom) knuckle boom cranes • Tub mounted
www.imt.eu
IMT develop and manufacture lighting
signalisation systems for Helideck and
Marine Navigation.
Stand 2531
Headquartered in the Netherlands, with offices
thoughout the world, companies rely on IMT
for safety in ciritcal applications. Products
from the ILED range and the much heralded
CIRCLE-H system fort the illumination oft
the Helideck TD/PM will be on display.
IMT B.V.
Pascalweg 10a
4104 BG Culemborg
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)881 269 100
www.interdam.com
InterDam is specialized in heavy duty fire and
blast resistant architectural items, such as
walls, doors and windows. With a long term
experience in the oil & gas and offshore wind
energy industries worldwide, the architectural
products range covers blast ratings and fire
ratings from A0 up to H120 including jet fire
according IMO and SOLAS 1974 regulations.
InterDam B.V.
Benedenrijweg 186
2987 VB Ridderkerk
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)180 470 030
mail [email protected]
www.iro.nl
IRO – The Association of Dutch Suppliers
in the Oil & Gas Industry
Since its foundation in 1971 IRO has promoted
the interests of Dutch supply and service
companies in the upstream oil and gas industry.
Members cover all activities involved in the
supply industry, such as engineering, field
development, pipeline installation, maintenance,
manufacturing and material & equipment
supply, onshore as well as offshore.
IRO
P.O. Box 390
3000 AJ Rotterdam
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)793 411 981
[email protected]
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It is our aim to allow people to work safe in
hazardous environments. From engineering and
production to installation, we are the suitable
supplier for on- and offshore projects where
passive fire protection solutions are required.
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To promote the qualities of Dutch suppliers in
the oil and gas industry, IRO cooperates with
national and international organisations with
similar interests and spreads information via
publications, internet and meetings. IRO also
organizes trade missions, seminars, workshops,
member meetings and participation in oil and
gas exhibitions worldwide.
IRO represents the interests of 440 member
companies.
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www.iv-groep.nl
Iv-Groep
P.O. Box 1155
3350 CD Papendrecht
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)889 433 000
fax
+31 (0)889 433 001
Iv-Groep operates globally as an
engineering and consulting company.
With 1,000 professionals strong, we offer
multidisciplinary services in several markets,
among others Oil & Gas, Maritime and Special
Structures & Equipment. This diversity of our
knowledge represents significant added value
for our clients.
Stand 2531
By combining the strength of its companies,
Iv-Groep has extensive experience in all
relevant disciplines in these markets.
With this expertise, Iv-Groep can take care
of the complete engineering for modification,
upgrade, new-build and conversion projects as
well as support its clients throughout all project
phases, complemented with procurement,
sub-contracting, construction, commissioning
and start-up services.
www.jbsystems.nl
Stand 2531
Personally involved right from the start!
Distinctive in Marine & Offshore, special
machinery and process control.
Specially designed electrical control systems
for complex mission critical equipment.
Electrical control systems based on proven
technology and a personal approach.
JB Systems Industrial Automation BV
Westlandseweg 190
3131 HX Vlaardingen
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)104 608 060
[email protected]
www.jumbomaritime.nl
Jumbo
Havenstraat 23
3115 HC Schiedam
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)10 7900 300
[email protected]
Offshore installation contracting
Jumbo is a privately owned company with five
decades of maritime industry experience. We own
a state-of-the-art and versatile fleet of specialized
offshore transportation and installation vessels
which we operate worldwide in the Oil & Gas and
Renewable Industry. With our track record and
technical expertise, we have built a solid reputation
as a reliable and efficient provider of cost effective
transport and installation solutions.
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environments, we are experts in the installation
of fixed facilities such as piled foundations,
templates, conductors, jackets and topsides.
This also includes wind turbine foundations.
Subsea Lifting Operations: In more challenging
deep water and ultra deep water, we excel in
Subsea Lifting of large and complex structures and
foundations. This also includes the provision of
complete FPSO Mooring System installations.
Offshore Heavy Lifting: In relative shallow water
www.keppelverolme.nl
Keppel Verolme
Prof. Gerbrandyweg 25
3197 KK Rotterdam-Botlek
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)181 234 300
[email protected]
Keppel Verolme is Europe’s trusted offshore
and marine solutions partner since 1957.
It operates a comprehensive yard in
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which is
strategically located in proximity to the oil
and gas fields of Scotland, United Kingdom and
Norway, and has direct access to the North Sea.
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The yard’s modern facilities include one of
Europe’s largest docks. Backed by a versatile
and highly skilled workforce, Keppel Verolme
is able to undertake the dry-docking, repair
and maintenance, modification, conversion
and construction of various vessel types.
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www.mammoet.com
At Mammoet, we provide solutions for lifting,
transporting, installing and decommissioning
large and heavy structures. Our sophisticated
and powerful equipment means nothing without
a plan. Our business isn’t about size.
It’s about: time.
Mammoet
20525 FM 521
Rosharon, Texas 77583
USA
phone +1 281 369 2200
[email protected]
The sea, a challenge to man and machine.
Research institute MARIN is a provider of
advanced expertise and independent research.
Through the use of the newest test facilities,
full-scale measurement and simulators and
working together with an extensive innovation
and research network we a chieve our goal
of developing cleaner, safer and smarter
ships and maritime constructions.
www.offshoreshipdesigners.com
Offshore Ship Designers (OSD)
Sluisplein 42
1975 AG IJmuiden
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)255 545 070
[email protected]
Offshore Ship Designers is an integrated design
company with solid engineering capacity.
OSD has the skills, capacity and ideas to tackle
innovative projects and, most importantly,
it can bring true independence to the table.
OSD’s strategy is to build on its reputation
and expertise with good, solid, practical and
cost-effective OSV’s and tugs. Ship conversion
and upgrade projects are also keeping OSD busy.
www.podh.eu
Port of Den Helder is thé logistics knowledge
and service hub for the southern North Sea.
Our international seaport offers plenty of
space and possibilities. We provide room
for development focused on substainability.
NV Port of Den Helder
P.O. Box 4058
1780 HB Den Helder
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)223 618 481
[email protected]
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That’s how we move time for our customers.
So time isn’t set in concrete. Or forged in steel.
It’s not even all that heavy. And yet, it’s the
biggest thing we can move for you.
Uptime. Turnaround time. Time to market.
To our customers, time is the currency that
matters most. That’s why we strive to bring
their deadlines forward. It’s an integrated,
daily effort shared by everyone at Mammoet.
www.marin.nl
MARIN
Haagsteeg 2
6708 PM Wageningen
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)317 493 911
[email protected]
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With the airport, and thanks to the very
favorable geographic location,our port provides
plenty of possibilities for water-related companies.
Stand 2427
MARIN (Maritime Research Institute
Netherlands) is based in Wageningen
and employs a staff of 370.
MARIN, challenging wind and waves.
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OSD’s best known offshore brand is the IMT900
series designed by OSD-IMT.
Offshore Ship Designers consists of design teams
in the head office in IJmuiden, Dundee, York,
Appledore, Shanghai and Singapore.
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Due to the variety of civil and maritime
companies, Den Helder offers more than
just activities.
Knowledge and research, training
and educational institutions are also located
around the harbour. Additionally, the Port
of Den Helder is home to the fleet of the
Royal Dutch Navy.
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www.redboxgroup.com
ZPMC - Red Box Energy Services
Hofpoort Building, Hofplein 20, 14th Floor
3032 AC Rotterdam
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)102 680 200
[email protected]
Stand 2531
ZPMC – RED BOX Energy Services focuses on
high-value niche markets in the offshore and
onshore energy services industry where high
standards require capital, technical skill,
operational capabilities, client focus, dedication
to safety and environmental stewardship.
Our fleet:
AUDAX and PUGNAX: PC-3 Ice-Classed Deck Carrier Vessels (2016)
Our initial focus is Marine Transportation
services for major oil companies and leading
EPC contractors.
HUA YANG LONG:
50,000 DWT Semi-submersible Vessel,
owned by Guangzhou Salvage (2015)
RED ZED I and RED ZED II:
50,000 DWT semi-submersible Vessels (2015)
Stand 2625
www.royalihc.com
Royal IHC enables its customers to execute
complex projects from sea level to ocean
floor in the most challenging of maritime
environments.
We are a reliable supplier of innovative and
efficient equipment, vessels and services for the
offshore, dredging and wet mining markets.
Royal IHC
P.O. Box 3
2960 AA Kinderdijk
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)880 152 325
[email protected]
With a history steeped in Dutch shipbuilding
since the mid-17th century, we have in-depth
knowledge and expertise of engineering and
manufacturing high-performance integrated
vessels and equipment, and providing
sustainable services. With our commitment
to technological innovation we strive to
continuously meet the specific needs of each
customer in a rapidly evolving world.
www.seatools.com
Seatools B.V. provides complete solutions
for almost any underwater challenge.
Seatools’ success is proven by its extensive
track record, supplying high-quality tailor-made
underwater equipment to clients worldwide
in the offshore industry, dredging and civil
construction.
Seatools B.V.
P.O. Box 7433
3280 AE Numansdorp
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)186 680 000
[email protected]
Seaway Heavy Lifting
Seaway Heavy Lifting
Albert Einsteinlaan 50
2719 ER Zoetermeer
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)79 363 7700
[email protected]
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to complex problems in-house, including the
mechanical, hydraulic, electrical/electronic
and software design and implementation.
With all the required skills in-house to design
and build complete systems, Seatools’ compact
organization guarantees a rapid response and
a solution that matches the clients requirements.
The success of Seatools is due to the ‘all in one
company’ concept. Seatools’ staffing is such
that it can provide a complete solution
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www.seawayheavylifting.com
Stand 2531
Seaway Heavy Lifting is a leading offshore
contractor in the global Oil & Gas and
Renewables industry, offering tailored T&I
and EPCI solutions.
We operate globally focussing on the North Sea,
Mediterranean, America’s, Africa, Asia Pacific.
We own and operate crane vessels Stanislav
Yudin and Oleg Strashnov, which have
a revolving lift capacity of 2,500Mt and
5,000Mt respectively.
YEARS
By utilizing our highly skilled and motivated
workforce, quality assets and continuous focus
on new technologies we provide our clients
with safe, effective and added value solutions.
Seaway Heavy Lifting operates from its offices
in Zoetermeer, Houston, Aberdeen, Glasgow,
Hamburg, Cyprus and Paris.
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www.sirimarine.nl
Siri Marine, based in the Netherlands, is one
of the leading providers of motion/condition
monitoring services and equipment. We use
both our own in house developed and produced
MRU’s, data loggers and software, as well
as third party equipment.
Siri Marine
Stationsweg 1
9901 CP Appingedam
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)596 620 997
[email protected]
SPT Offshore, is an independent offshore
contractor and market leader in suction pile
foundations and anchors used for offshore
oil/gas platforms/floaters. SPT Offshore has
designed, fabricated and installed > 500 suction
piles / anchors worldwide. SPT also takes
on mooring contracts, including supply and
installation of complete moorings and
hook-up to the floater.
SPT Offshore
Korenmolenlaan 2
3447 GG Woerden
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)348 435 260
[email protected]
www.technofysica.nl
Techno Monitoring, specialized in customized
design of load sensors, monitoring systems and
software by combining its long-standing experience
and advanced engineering technologies.
Solutions for: • Control & Monitoring: load
measurements from simple, single axis load
sensors to fully computerized measuring and
logging systems for tension, compression,
bi-directional shearforce, torque/thrust, inclination/
displacement, vibration, temperature, etc.
Techno Fysica BV
Aalborg 5
2993 LP Barendrecht
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)180 620 211
[email protected]
www.deme-group.com/tideway
Tideway is all about successful offshore energy
projects, be it oil, gas, wind, wave, or tidal. We
know the business from inside out. We offer marine
engineering, we solve challenges, invent innovative
solutions and get the job done.
Tideway BV
Minervum 7442
4817 ZG Breda
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)76 520 4140
[email protected]
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Other area’s of expertise include salvage,
weather dependant lashing and general
monitoring of and consultancy on ship
motions and their causes.
Within the Oil&Gas industry we specialize in
long term condition monitoring on rigs and
platforms, remote monitoring of abandoned
rigs and platforms, as well as tow monitoring.
www.sptoffshore.com
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Our specialized activities include: • Rock placement • Landfall construction • Dredging shore
approaches, trenching and backfilling • Offshore
platform ballasting by rock placement • Preparing,
connecting, protecting and stabilising pipelines
• Power cable installation including pipe-pulls
Stand 2517
Furthermore, SPT has developed and realized
several Self Installing Platform (SIP) concepts
for small to medium sized fields from small
to large wellhead platforms up to 10,000 tons.
We also provide T&I services for large platforms
using its innovative floatover technology, which
allows installation of very large topsides up to
15,000 ton.
Stand 2531
• Client specific: static/dynamic response,
telemetry, load links, deep sea load sensors
• Structural stress measurement and all strain
gauge applications. • Troubleshooting and
system failure analysis. • Reconditioning of
load cells (repair, proofload testing, calibration/
certification, all makes). • Product development
and mechanical engineering (FEM calculations).
• Software development (condition monitoring,
overload protection, weighing applications)
• Measuring of mechanical parameters.
Stand 2427
• Commissioning & decommissioning
• Deepsea harvesting • Subsea installation
• Seabed improvement and ballasting services
Tideway provides total offshore solutions for the
renewables market, the interconnector as well as
the oil & gas markets. Specifically in the field of
offshore windfarms our engineering services have
become the cutting edge of operations.
We engineer, we install, we protect.
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www.uos-nl.com
United Offshore Services V.O.F
Appelweg 16
4782 PX Moerdijk
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)168 415 140
[email protected]
Founded in 1993, United Offshore Services is a
privately owned Dutch company which, together
with carefully selected partners, is a European
technology leader in the design, production, and
supply of large diameter, high performance steel
wire and synthetic ropes, hoisting equipment,
and associated products intended for the marine,
industrial, and offshore markets.
Stand 2517
With ISO 9001 LRQA certification, the company
has grown to meet the ever increasing demands
dictated by its customers with a strong reputation
for quality, expertise, and service.
www.vanaalstgroup.com
Smart innovative solutions
Van Aalst Group
Baanhoekweg 16
3313 LA Dordrecht
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)786 221 304
[email protected]
Van Aalst Group is specialized in specific fields
of cargo handling to transport and distribute
dry bulk and liquids to the Marine & Offshore
and the Construction Industry worldwide and in
motion compensated gangway bridges.
Stand 2427
With the core design principles being reliable,
durable, efficient and safe, the companies
continually delivered top quality products that
adhere to customer specific and environmental
demands. A significant improvement comes
with Safeway’s motion compensated gangway
with a workability up to 3,5 meter significant
waves at 20 meter above sea level. The benefit
of the system is a higher workability allowing
transfers in larger weather windows.
www.vanbeest.com
Van Beest B.V.
P.O. Box 57
3360 AB Sliedrech
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)184 413 300
[email protected]
Van Beest is the leading supplier of a complete
range of accessories for steel wire rope, chain
and synthetic rope worldwide. Our Green Pin
and Excel products – manufactured in
Holland and France – are known for their
superior quality. Green Pin shackles comply
with many internationally recognized standards
and can be supplied with various certificates.
Stand 2427
The Excel brand covers a wide range of grade 8,
grade 10 and stainless steel hooks and
chain components.
Find out more about our new Green Pin ROV
Release & Retrieve shackle: specially designed
for efficient lifting with an ROV.
See also Page 25
www.vanheckgroup.com
Van Heck
Ambachtsstraat 2
8391 VK Noordwolde
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)561 431 739
[email protected]
Van Heck operates on an international level
in the field of water movement. With its
diversity in pump units, Van Heck operates
from dredging, salvage and offshore operations
to sewer renovation, cool water applications
and compiling emergency plans for flooding.
Every operation can be customized to meet the
wishes of the client and the project’s demands.
Stand 2531
The launch of Van Heck’s newest innovation,
the Sea Trophy and systems – green and easy
oil recovery (submersible oil recovery pump),
provide salvagers and the shipping industry
with an astute and versatile tool to recover
(fuel) oil in all unforeseen situations.
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www.vanoord.com
Oil and gas are the world’s most important
sources of energy. To meet the global demand,
oil and gas are extracted from more isolated
fields and transported over longer distances.
Van Oord Offshore focusses on dredging and
backfilling, pipeline trenches, laying pipelines
in shallow water, protecting subsea pipelines
with a layer of rocks, and installing offshore
platforms.
Van Oord Offshore bv
Jan Blankenweg 2
4207 HN Gorinchem
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)88 8265 200
[email protected]
www.vryhof.com
Global Maritime Vryhof is one of the world’s
leading developers and suppliers of offshore
anchoring technology. Being at the forefront of
its field, Vryhof helps clients solve challenges
and remove technical thresholds through
innovation that is rooted in sound engineering
and long practical experience. Vryhof renders
services worldwide to oil & gas companies,
drilling companies, offshore contractors, FPSO
operators and contractors, as well as to the
maritime, dredging and MRE industries.
Global Maritime Vryhof
P.O. Box 109
2900 AC Capelle aan den IJssel
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)102 668 900
[email protected]
www.westholland.nl
The West-Holland Foreign Investment Agency
assist companies in establishing their business
in The Netherlands with a focus on The Hague
region.
Stand 2625
Say YES to safety
Care is deeply rooted in our organisation.
Working closely with our clients and partners,
safe working conditions, and respect for each
other and environment. That’s how we strive
for a healthy profit.
Stand 2233
Vryhof’s expertise is complimented by that of
its sister companies:
•M
oorLink, designs, produces and installs
swivel links, connections and wire clamps
for use on chain, wire or rope.
•D
eep Sea Mooring, offers a comprehensive
portfolio of offshore mooring services.
Stand 2531
Please contact Wim Rutgers – International
Business Advisor for FDI from West-Holland
Foreign Investment Agency (WFIA) for further
information.
The Hague is home to large oil and gas operators
like Shell, TAQA Energy, Q8, Wintershall, Total,
Petrogas, Engie, Dana Petroleum and engineering
and oil field service firms such as CB&I, Technip,
Schulmberger, Jacobs, Fugro, Heerema, Allseas
and SBM offshore.
Wim Rutgers
P.O. Box 16067
2500 BB The Hague
The Netherlands
phone +31 6 24 75 66 933
[email protected]
www.ynfpublishers.com
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Offshore Industry (OSI) magazine is one of
the leading publications for the international
offshore industry. OSI has built a strong
reputation for providing the latest news,
informative editorials, rich photography
and high-quality production, and has broad
readership including operators, contractors,
engineers and managers.
Yellow & Finch Publishers
President Rooseveltlaan 739
4383 NG Vlissingen
The Netherlands
phone +31 (0)118 473 398
[email protected]
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worldwide, OSI is a must-read! In addition
to the magazine, OSI also offers wider coverage
via Offshore Industry’s digital edition, which
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www.offshore-industry.eu. If you would like
more information about communication
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discuss a turn-key solution for your company.
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