Lifting, drilling and subsea solutions firm Huisman has received its first order for a new production facility in Brazil.
Huisman is to provide three sets of five cranes, manufacturing of which will start in 2014, when construction of the Brazilian production facility is completed.
Delivery is scheduled between Q3 2015 and Q1 2017.
The three identical sets of cranes will be for new build vessels Cassino, Curumim and Salinas.
Each set consists of two 60-tonne pedestal mounted offshore cranes (PMOC), two 60-tonne knuckle boom cranes (KBC) and one 12-tonne pipe handling knuckle boom crane (PHKBC).
The cranes can be used for various applications, including unloading of supply vessels, pipe handling, offshore construction work, and subsea installation.
The first set of cranes will be installed on the Cassino, and will be delivered in 2015.
In Q2 2016 the Curumim will be equipped with its set of cranes, and, in Q3 2017, the last set will be installed onboard the Salinas. Huisman will also deliver three 550-tnone tiltable lay systems for Subsea 7 and the two 650-tonne and two 340-tonne tiltable lay systems for Technip-DOF.
All these pipelay equipment orders are part of a big Petrobas order and should be ready to serve the Brazilian market in 2017.
Huisman opened an engineering, sales and service office in Rio de Janeiro to locally support the South American market in 2008 and in 2012 started the construction of a new production facility in the city of Navegantes, alongside the river Itajai-Açu in Santa Catarina, a state in the southern part of Brazil bordering the Atlantic Ocean.