Heerema Marine Contractor’s new Deepwater Construction Vessel (DCV) Aegir was christened in the Rotterdam Calandkanaal (NL).
This state-of-the-art vessel is capable of executing complex infrastructure and pipeline projects in ultra deep water, while offering sufficient lifting capacity to install platforms in relatively shallow water.
The vessel is also the first vessel in the world to make use of a portable reel system, which offers time savings because Aegir no longer needs to sail back and forth to shore.
The building of the Aegir started in July 2010, at the DSME shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. It arrived in Rotterdam in March of this year, and was transported to the Huisman Yard in Schiedam, where the pipelay equipment was installed.
The vessel is 211m-long and 46m-wide.
Aegir’s Offshore Mast Crane can lift 4000-tonne. It took 55,000-tonne of steel, 1500km of welding, and 1300km of electric wiring to build the Aegir.
The vessel's first project will be to install risers at a depth of 2000m in the Lucius field, Gulf of Mexico for Anadarko.