Pieter Schelte starts maiden voyage

Allseas’ 382m-long, 124m-wide platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay mega-vessel Pieter Schelte is on its way to Europe after leaving Daewoo’s Okpo shipyard in South Korea 17 November.

The Pieter Schelte will make short stops in Singapore and Cape Town and is expected to arrive in Rotterdam around 6 January 2015, sailing under her own power.

Once in Rotterdam, she will be moored at a rented deepwater site in order to have a topsides lift-system beams installed on the bows.

Following test lifts with the system on a test platform in the Southern North Sea, which Allseas is building, will be performed, after which the removal of the Talisman Yme platform will take place in the summer of 2015.

The removal of the Shell Brent Delta platform is planned later in the summer of 2015, or in the spring of 2016.

Facts:

• Dimensions: 382m-long and 124m-wide, with a 59-wide slot for removing topsides.
• Lift capability: 48,000-tonne for topsides using eight sets of horizontal lifting beams, at 6000-tonne a piece, across the slot for removal or installation of topsides.
• 25,000-tonne for jackets, using two tilting lift beams on the stern for lifting and laydown
• Pipelay system: A 2000-tonne capacity S-Lay pipelay system, able to handle 12m pipe sections under tension using four 500-tonne tensioners, with a 170m-long stinger.

• Power: 12 thrusters at 75-tonne a piece, powered by eight main diesel generators, providing a total installed 95MW power

• Yard: Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering

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