Ship&Offshore | Issue 02/2018
Allseas plans world’s largest construction vessel
Swiss offshore services firm Allseas is planning to build a vessel big enough to be able to remove the world’s largest oil and gas platforms when they reach the end of their production lives, its chief executive Edward Heerema has told news agency Reuters. The vessel, to be called Amazing Grace , is designed to remove the heaviest platforms in a single lift and could reduce decommissioning costs for global oil and gas producers, the firm said. It would be a bigger version of Allseas’ existing Pioneering Spirit ship, which removed Shell’s Brent Delta platform in the North Sea last year, and would cost about USD 3 billion, Heerema told Reuters....