DecommissioningPRESS RELEASE – Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed its first decommissioning job of this summer, the single-lift removal of Shell UK’s Brent Alpha platform from the North Sea. Read more
Oil & GasOffshore contractor Allseas will reduce its workforce by 300 in the course of 2020, which will mostly impact its vessels’ crews. The company says it is forced to do so due to the low oil...Read more
Offshore For the first time ever, the world’s two largest pipelay vessels Solitaire and Pioneering Spirit are together in Rotterdam. Both vessels are owned by Allseas. The Solitaire arrived in Rotterdam after completing work for Equinor’s...Read more
DecommissioningPRESS RELEASE – Allseas has been contracted to remove a total of 35,300 tonnes in topsides and jackets from the Norwegian North Sea. Platform preparations are scheduled to commence later this year and part of...Read more
OffshorePRESS RELEASE – Allseas is ramping up the final performance tests of Pioneering Spirit’s new 5000-tonne crane as the final phase of commissioning nears conclusion in Rotterdam’s Alexiahaven. This week, the main hoist overload test...Read more
Heavy-liftingAllseas’ record-breaking construction vessel Pioneering Spirit will soon be able to remove and install jackets weighing up to 20,000 tonnes in a single lift. Systems and parts of the new Jacket Lift System are taking...Read more
Deepsea MiningPRESS RELEASE – Allseas has acquired the former ultra-deepwater drillship Vitoria 10000 for conversion into a polymetallic nodule collection vessel. The vessel will be used to collect nodules that contain nickel, manganese, copper and cobalt...Read more
Oil&GasIn a rare interview, Allseas CEO Edward Heerema said stopping Nordstream 2 was first and foremost damaging to the company’s sense of honour. “It’s a disappointment, we really wanted to take credit for it”, he...Read more
DecommissioningAllseas has bagged another platform decommissioning contract. The company will remove Repsol Norge’s Gyda Platform, which is located in the Norwegian North Sea. The platform will possibly be reused.
The contract covers both the 18,000 tons...Read more
RenewablesDutch offshore contractor Allseas has entered the renewables market. It is not the offshore wind industry the company is targeting. Instead, Allseas has acquired Bluerise, a specialist developer of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology.
Bluerise...Read more
Pioneering SpiritAllseas is planning to increase the lift capacity of its flagship Pioneering Spirit. The current maximum lift capacity is to be increased from 48,000 to 60,000 tonnes, reports PCJ’s Dutch sister publication Nieuwsblad Transport.
Details of...Read more
Oil&GasOffshore contractors Van Oord and TechipFMC have been awarded a large EPCI contract for Anadarko’s Mozambique LNG project. The total contract value exceeds USD 1 billion.
Van Oord and TechnipFMC are contracted for the engineering, procurement,...Read more
DecommissioningThe Pioneering Spirit has removed another platform topside. With a weight of 3,800 tons, the Valhall QP topside is the lightest one yet.
The Valhall QP platform removal is the first job for Allseas under a...Read more
Allseas has won a new decommissioning contract from Equinor Energy to remove the 48,000 tons weighing Statfjord A platform. Allseas’ flagship Pioneering Spirit will lift the topside from its concrete gravity-based substructure in one piece...Read more
Allseas broke another lift record with its humongous heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit, which successfully executed the single-lift installation of the processing platform and utility living quarters topsides in the Johan Sverdrup field, offshore Norway.
Together...Read more