The awe inspired during the early days of the North Sea industry was back and in full force for the world’s heaviest offshore lift. Elaine Maslin reports. Pioneering Spirit, closing in on Brent Delta…
Kotug International’s offshore division assisted Allseas with the transfer and transport of Shell’s Brent Delta topsides after the record-setting removal of the structure by Pioneering Spirit. Image from Kotug…
Shell has awarded Wood Group a contract in support of its decommissioning the Brent Bravo platform in the UK North Sea. Effective immediately, Wood Group will prepare the platform for removal via a single lift using the Pioneering Spirit heavy lift vessel…
Just days after being lifted from the concrete legs it had stood on since 1976, Shell's Brent Delta platform arrived in one piece at Able Seaton Port, Hartlepool, on Tuesday. The journey followed the record-breaking, 24,200-tonne lift by Allseas' megavessel Pioneering Spirit…
Final preparations are being made for what will be the heaviest ever offshore lift and the first of the once prolific Brent field platforms removals using Allseas’ mega-vessel, the Pioneering Spirit. Elaine Maslin reports. Allseas’…
Allseas’ dynamically positioned single-lift installation and decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit is on its way to northeast England after setting a world offshore heavy lifting record on Friday, with the removal of Shell’s 24…
Allseas’ dynamically positioned single-lift installation and decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has set a world lifting record, with the removal of Shell’s 24,200-ton Brent Delta platform topside today. Located in the Brent field…
The world’s largest vessel has arrived at the Brent Delta facility in the UK North Sea ready to perform the heaviest offshore lift to date. The close to a million-tonne displacement Pioneering Spirit mega-vessel is set to remove a 24…
The world’s heaviest offshore lift is primed to take place in the North Sea, on what was one of the largest UK fields, using the world’s largest vessel. UPDATE: the lift happened on Friday, 27 April. Watch a video of the lift here. Watch…
The world’s largest vessel has set sail today (25 April) to the UK North Sea Brent field, where it will perform the heaviest offshore lift to date. Having already broken the record with the 13,400-tonne Yme lift, offshore Norway, the…
Oil major Shell has not provided enough information about its plans for decommissioning the massive Brent field structures, according to a joint statement by eight environmental groups. The statement was made at the end of a 60-day consultation…
With Shell’s Brent Charlie due to shut down in 2018, the supermajor has had to find a new home for its Penguins cluster subsea tieback. Elaine Maslin outlines the redevelopment plans. Lucy Ritchie…
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit is in the process of testing new equipment, as the mega vessel readies for the decommissioning of Shell’s Brent Delta in the North Sea later this year. The Pioneering Spirit in pipleay mode…
Oil major Shell has launched a 60-day public consultation on its plans for decommissioning the Brent field facilities in the North Sea. The huge engineering project will see the first significant use of Allseas' Pioneering Spirit heavy lift vessel…
German oil firm Wintershall has made a minor discovery near the Vega field in the Norwegian North Sea, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The discovery was made as part of a four-well drilling campaign in production license 248 F…
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