VIDEO: Watch Pioneering Spirit do world's heaviest offshore lift

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 24,200-ton Brent Delta platform topside. The vessel is now nearing Hartlepool, where the topside will be transferred to a barge, the Iron Lady, before being taken inshore to be skidded onto a quayside at Able Seaton Port.

Watch a video of the operation below, courtesy of Allseas.

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World's biggest vessel completes heaviest ever offshore lift.

The Brent Delta lift in detail

Take a virtual tour around Pioneering Spirit

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