Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit bags more installation jobs in German North Sea
Allseas has been selected to install the high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter platforms for the DolWin4 and BorWin4 offshore grid connection projects in the German North Sea. Awarded by Dragados Offshore, the contract covers...Read more
Allseas bags more transport and installation work in offshore wind
Offshore energy market operator, Allseas, has secured additional transport and installation (T&I) work fir the offshore wind industry, providing services for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Boreas project off the coast of Norfolk UK. Read more
PCJ 2022 Review: Q4’s most read
The year 2022 has been filled with exciting projects and interviews, but for the next couple of days, we will look into the articles that have got the most attention from our readers, quarter by...Read more
Inside Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit (video)
Installing and removing jackets and topsides from offshore platforms, laying pipelines, and housing over 500 crew members… Allseas’ impressive Pioneering Spirit does it all. The world’s largest working vessel is now moored at the Prinses...Read more
Allseas Global Logics announces new English office
Allseas Global Logistics announces the opening of a new office in the English Midlands, on 3rd November 2022.Read more
More decommissioning work booked for Pioneering Spirit
Allseas has booked more work for Pioneering Spirit, the world’s largest construction vessel, in the UK northern sea. The vessel, with its single-lift technology, has been contracted by EnQuest for the removal of Heather Alpha...Read more
Pioneering Spirit removes North Sea’s Tyra field jackets
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit is headed for Frederikshaven, in Denmark, to bring two jackets from the North Sea’s Tyra field for recycling. Read more
Decommissioning the Gyda platform: Allseas releases the project film
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit has completed the decommissioning of Repsol Norge’s Gyda platform. Repsol obtained permission from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority for the removal and disposal of the platform last September. The removal and transportation of...Read more
Allseas completes installation of DolWin kappa offshore converter station
Allseas has completed the installation of TenneT’s 900-megawatt DolWin6 kappa offshore converter station for the offshore grid connection system in the German North Sea – including piling of jacket foundations. This 12-day operation, completed on...Read more
Allseas deploys Pioneering Spirit to German North Sea
The Pioneering Spirit is on its way to the German North Sea from Rotterdam. There, its topsides and jacket lift technology will be used in the installation of TenneT’s 900-MW offshore converter station.Read more
Allseas Global Logistics announces strike action at Felixstowe
An eight-day strike is taking place in the port-town of Felixstowe, in Suffolk, England. Over 1,900 members of the Unite union at Felixstowe will go on strike between Sunday 21 August and Monday 29 August. Allseas...Read more
Is Pioneering Spirit now also called Pieter Schelte?
Has Allseas added back the name of Pieter Schelte to the hull of the installation vessel Pioneering Spirit? You would say that after studying a recent photo of the mega-ship. Pieter Schelte is again very...Read more
Pioneering Spirit completes final Valhall lift
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, the largest construction vessel, has returned to Stord, Norway, on Thursday, June 9, to deliver multiple decommissioned platform facilities removed from the North Sea’s Valhall field complex, offshore Norway.Read more
Pioneering Spirit removes the Gyda platform
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, the largest construction vessel, has recently removed the Gyda platform from the souther part of the Norwegian sector in the North Sea. The vessel has reached Aker Solutions yard in Stord where...Read more
The story of the Pioneering Spirit jacket lift system (Part 3)
VideoAllseas’ Pioneering Spirit, the largest construction vessel, has recently received its new jacket lift system built to install and remove entire jackets up to 20,000 tonnes in a single lift. The upgrade has already been...Read more
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit wraps up first commercial lift with new JLS
Allseas has finally seen the first result of what it called revolution of its offshore construction behemoth Pioneering Spirit, as it completed its first commercial lift with the recently installed new JLS technology. The jacket...Read more
Pioneering Spirit lifts Johan Sverdrup 25,000 tonne platform into place
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit has installed the 25,000 tonne new processing platform (P2) for Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup development offshore Norway. The massive platform was lifted into position in one lift with the world’s largest construction vessel...Read more
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit to lift 125,000 tonnes of facilities in 2022
Allseas informed that the company has been booked to transport some 125,000 tonnes of new and obsolete offshore facilities with its Pioneering Spirit. The vessel has been undergoing some additional modification and transformation recently. Read more