ELA Delivers Control Room For Semisubmersible Crane Vessel
The crew of Heerema Marine Contractors’ (HMC) Thialf semisubmersible crane vessel (SSCV) has a new 6-m (20-ft) office container to house its control room for operation of anchor winches.
Thialf is the largest SSCV in Heerema’s fleet and capable of a tandem lift of 14,200 tons (15,600 short tons). Its two cranes have both depth reach lowering capability and heavy-lift capacity to install topsides. The SSCV can be used to install foundations, moorings, SPARs, tension-leg platforms and integrated topsides, as well as pipelines and flowlines.
“Originally HMC was looking for a 10-ft [3-m] office container to monitor the work,” Frank ter Haak, business development manager Netherlands at ELA Container Offshore GmbH, said in a statement. “However we managed to convince them in using our standard 20-ft [6-m] offshore office container to serve as a control room. The container was needed on short notice, and we managed to adjust the interior for installing their monitors and further inventory.”
Heerema said the addition helped in its operations.
“The container was placed on top of our winch container and a stairway and platform was built from scaffolding, providing us a perfect view on the hoses over the stern of the Thialf,” said Water de Winter, Heerema’s equipment management NFE. “We were very pleased with the way things were handled by ELA Container Offshore.”
Cosco Guangdong Delivers Mariner Sentinel
Scotland’s Sentinel Marine has taken delivery of a new emergency response and rescue vessel (ERRV) that will operate offshore the U.K.
The 65-m (213-ft) long, 16.6-m (54.5-ft) wide ERRV was delivered by China’s Cosco Guangdong Shipyard.
The Mariner Sentinel was custom built for Statoil, which will deploy it to support operations at the Mariner Field in the North Sea. The field lies about 150 km (93 miles) east of the Shetland Isles and is due onstream in 2018.
The ERRV will provide emergency cover, oil spill response preparedness and tanker assist capabilities.
The five-year ERRV contract Sentinel Marine has with Statoil started in July 2016.
—Staff Reports
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