Imtech wraps up work on heavy-lift and pipelay vessels
April 18, 2012
Imtech Marine has completed work on three newbuild vessels to serve upstream offshore E&P operators.
Offshore staff
SINGAPORE –Imtech Marine has completed work on three newbuild vessels to serve upstream offshore E&P operators.
TheSeven 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.
TheRockpiperfall 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.
TheFlintstonebecomesTideway’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 Flintstoneis classed for ice and has a fall pipe of 2,000 m (6,562 ft).
