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Mammoet completes large 2-year construction project in Nigeria
With the installation of a 1,240-tonne propylene bullet, Mammoet has completed a large-scale construction project at the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Nigeria. For two years, over 100 Mammoet engineers were on-site to transport and install hundreds of components, the heaviest weighing 3,000 tonnes.
In total, Mammoet moved 239 items (almost 85,000 tonnes) from a dedicated jetty to the construction site and installed 154 plant components (68,415 tonnes), including a 3,000-tonne regenerator and a 2,000-tonne crude column. The regenerator is the heaviest item transported over a public road in Africa to date.
The components were sourced globally and shipped to a purpose-built quay in Lagos, from where Mammoet moved the items to the construction site. Prior to installation, the components were stored temporarily on freshly paved Enviro-Mat, which is Mammoet’s solution to improve soil conditions in order to withstand heavy loads. In this case, it was deployed to provide the main crane hard stands.
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Mammoet deployed conventional trailers, trucks, SPMT’s and a number of mobile and crawler cranes ranging in capacity from 250 to 1,600 tonnes. The contractor also brought two of its largest super heavy-lift ring cranes with lifting capacities up to 5,000 tonnes, the PTC 200 DS and PT 50.
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