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Imtech wraps up work on heavy-lift and pipelay vessels

Offshore staff

SINGAPORE – Imtech Marine has completed work on three newbuild vessels to serve upstream offshore E&P operators.

The Seven Borealis is a deepwater pipelay and heavy lift construction vessel built for Subsea 7 at Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore. It has a 5,000-ton lift capacity and a DP-3 system delivered by Imtech to allow operations without anchorage to 6,000 m (19,685 ft) water depth. It can use S-lay or J-lay and has provisions for flexible pipe.

The Rockpiper fall pipe rock dumping vessel for Royal Boskalis Westminster has Imtech integrated electro-technical and automation systems. It was built at the Keppel Singmarine Yard, Singapore.

The Flintstone becomes Tideway’s largest fall pipe rock dumping vessel for which Imtech was assigned the main power system. The vessel is at Huisman-Itrec in Schiedam to complete the dump system and for extensions to the DP system, bridge installation, and network. The Flintstone is classed for ice and has a fall pipe of 2,000 m (6,562 ft).

4/18/2012

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