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World's biggest crane ship Pieter Schelte
Topic Started: 22 Nov 2014, 12:15 AM (741 Views)
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21 November 2014

World's biggest crane ship Pieter Schelte sets sail for Rotterdam

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The world's largest ship, the Pieter Schelte can lift loads of 48,000 tonnes

The world's largest crane ship, which is capable of lifting oil rigs, has set sail from its shipyard in South Korea for Rotterdam Port in the Netherlands.

The Pieter Schelte, which left South Korea on Wednesday, is due to arrive at the port for completion in December.

The vessel is 124m (407ft) wide and 382m (1,253ft) long - as long as the Empire State Building is high.

Designed to assist offshore oil rigs, it reportedly cost around £1.9bn ($2.97bn) to build.

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Pieter Schelte statistics:

Overall length: 382m (1,253ft)

Breadth: 124m (407ft)

Lift capacity: 48,000 tonnes

Maximum speed: 14 knots

Accommodation for: 571 people

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The Pieter Schelte was commissioned by Swiss company Allseas, which specialises in offshore pipeline installation and subsea construction.

It has been billed as the biggest ship in the world - though the title is contested.

Unlike oil tankers or container vessels, crane ships specialise in lifting heavy loads and often assist in offshore construction.

In partnership with the Port of Rotterdam, the ship will be taken to Maasvlakte 2, an extension of the port, where a special pit has been drained to house the vessel.

After its completion, it will sail to the South Stream project in the Black Sea to lay pipelines there.

The ship will be used to install and remove offshore oil and gas rigs as well as to lay pipes.

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Though it dwarfs other ships, the Pieter Schelte will soon be eclipsed by a sister vessel

Allseas says the Pieter Schelte, which was built by Daewoo Heavy Industries in South Korea, will be able to lift loads of 48,000 tonnes.

However, the company has said it will build an even bigger vessel.

Allseas says it is planning a sister ship measuring 400m (1,312ft) long and 160m (525ft) wide.

Capable of lifting 77,000 tonnes, this vessel would be able to work on the world's largest oil rigs and should be in operation by 2020.

The title of world's biggest ship is difficult to define, but the largest floating vessel currently in operation is the Shell Prelude, a 488m (1,601ft) long platform for liquefied natural gas anchored in a South Korean port.

However the vessel is unable to propel itself, leading to questions as to whether it can actually be classified as a "ship".

The world's longest moving vessel is the Maersk Triple E class, a family of container ships each of which is 400m (1,312ft) in length.

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Giant Pieter Schelte Sets Sail for Rotterdam

BY MIKE SCHULER ON NOVEMBER 24, 2014

After at least 4 years under construction and decades of planning, the giant Pieter Schelte catamaran has set sail from the shipyard in South Korea for Rotterdam where the final phases of construction will take place.

Measuring 382 meters (1,253 feet) long by a whopping 124 meters wide (407 feet), the Pieter Schelte is arguably one of the biggest ships ever constructed, and perhaps the undisputed strangest-looking one with a hull that looks like two tankers placed side-by-side.

With help from a slot at the bow of the vessel and a 48,000 tonne lifting capacity, the ‘Pieter Schelte’ will be used to install and remove decommissioned topsides and jackets of large offshore oil and gas platforms in the North Sea with a single lift.

The vessel is also equipped for laying large pipelines with a capacity that will also make her the largest pipelay vessel.

The Pieter Schelte was commissioned by Swiss company Allseas, which specializes in offshore pipeline installation and subsea construction, and reportedly cost close to $3 billion to construct.

Although the vessel has been under construction at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering shipyard in Okpo since 2010 (early construction even began as early as 2007), the concept for the Pieter Schelte dates back to 1987 when it was first designed by Allseas founder and chief executive Edward Heerema.

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Pieter Schelte departed the DSME on November 17 under the assistance of tugs.

On its journey to Rotterdam, the ship will make stops at Singapore and then Cape Town.

Once in Rotterdam, Pieter Schelte will be moved to Alexiahaven to a specially-designed and dredged berth known as Maasvlakte 2, where the 65-meter long beams of the topside lift system will be installed.

Offshore operations are expected to commence in the summer of 2015, according to Allseas.

Allseas is also planning a second, larger ship with a lifting capacity up to 50% greater.

To understand how the Pieter Schelte will work, check out the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG-4GWzKNJ0


Pieter Schelte Particulars:

-Length overall (incl. tilting lift beam and stinger): 477 m (1,565 ft)

-Length overall (excl. tilting lift beam and stinger): 382 m (1,253 ft)

-Length between perpendiculars: 370 m (1,214 ft)

-Breadth: 124 m (407 ft)

-Depth to main deck: 30 m (98 ft)

-Slot length: 122 m (400 ft)

-Slot width: 59 m (194 ft)

-Topsides lift capacity: 48,000 t (105,820 kips)

-Jacket lift capacity: 25,000 t (55,116 kips)

-Stinger length (incl. transition frame): 210 m (690 ft)

-Operating draught: 10-25 m (32-82 ft)

-Maximum speed: 14 knots

-Total installed power: 95,000 kW

-Accommodation: 571 persons

-Dynamic positioning system: LR DP (AAA), fully redundant Kongsberg K-Pos DP-22 and 2 x cJoy system

-Deck cranes: 3 x Pipe transfer cranes of 50 t (110 kips) at 33 m (108 ft), 1 x Special purpose crane of
600 t (1,323 kips) at 20 m (66 ft)

-Work stations: Double-joint factory with 5 line-up stations and 2 stations for combined external and internal welding; Main firing line with 6 welding stations for double joints, 1 NDT station and 6 coating stations

-Tensioner capacity: 4 x 500 t (4 x 1,102 kips)

-Pipe diameters: From 2? to 68? OD

-Pipe cargo capacity (deck): 27,000 t


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Absurdly Large Catamaran Spotted off Singapore [PHOTOS]

BY ROB ALMEIDA ON DECEMBER 10, 2014

The Pieter Schelte, a 382 meter long x 124 meter wide vessel designed and built to remove aging oil platforms, had some photos taken of her while transiting through the Strait of Malacca recently.

These images are some of the best we’ve seen that provide a feel for the scale of this engineering marvel , via Allseas:

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ITF Slams Allseas: ‘Pieter Schelte’ Is a Nazi War Criminal, Not a Ship Name

BY MIKE SCHULER ON FEBRUARY 4, 2015

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Pieter Schelte arrives in Rotterdam, January 2015. Photo: KOTUG International B.V.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is demanding that Swiss-based Allseas Group SA immediately change the name of ‘Pieter Schelte’ as it honors a convicted Nazi war criminal.

The Pieter Schelte is a giant catamaran-like vessel built to remove decommissioned oil platforms from the North Sea and, at 382 meters long by 124 meters wide, the vessel is considered one of the largest ships in the world.

The concept for the ship was first developed by Allseas’ founder Edward Hereema, who first introduced the idea for the ship in 1987.

The vessel is named after Edward Hereema’s father, who was a Dutch officer in the Waffen-SS, an armed wing of the Nazi Party.

ITF president Paddy Crumlin said the vessel’s name was a disgrace and it should not be permitted to operate in UK or European waters.

“For Allseas to name its vessel after a convicted Nazi war criminal is utterly shameful,” Crumlin said in a statement released to the ITF website. “To even countenance honoring a Waffen-SS officer just shows how twisted, arrogant and out-of-touch Allseas management is.”

In January, the Pieter Schelte arrived in Rotterdam after being towed from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering shipyard in South Korea, where the ship has been under construction since 2010.

Final assembly will take place at a specially-designed and dredged berth known as Maasvlakte 2 in Alexiahaven.

Crumlin’s criticism of Allseas didn’t stop at the name.

“It is worth noting that Allseas has a long history of seeking to drive down safety standards and working conditions for seafarers the world over,” Crumlin said. “It is this group that the Australian Government is taking its lead from when it comes to driving changes to its offshore visa arrangements.

“The decision from Allseas management to honor a Nazi war criminal should serve as a potent reminder to the world of just what sort of outfit Allseas Group really is.”

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton also commented: “It is almost unthinkable that Allseas would have a vessel honoring a senior Nazi war criminal operating in European waters. It is nothing short of a grave insult. The Pieter Schelte should not be permitted to operate until it changes its name.”

According to a report in The Guardian, the ‘Pieter Schelte’ name is also drawing criticism from leaders of Jewish communities and Holocaust memorial groups in Britain and the Netherlands.

The vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Jonathan Arkush, said: “Naming such a ship after an SS officer who was convicted of war crimes is an insult to the millions who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis. We urge the ship’s owners to reconsider and rename the ship after someone more appropriate.”

So far, Allseas has refrained from comment, although a previous statement from Edward Heerema in the Telegraaf newspaper defended the name and his father, saying the vessel’s name simply acknowledges his father’s great achievements in the oil and gas industry, The Guardian Report said.

Meanwhile, an ITF-affiliated union, UK-based Unite, has set up a petition calling on Shell to rename or remove the Pieter Schelte.

Shell UK Ltd has awarded Allseas Group the contract for the removal, transportation and load-in shore of the topsides of three of its Brent platforms situated on the UK continental shelf.

“In the year that the world marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we are appalled that Shell UK Ltd is allowing a vessel named after a Nazi war criminal to be used for its purposes in UK waters,” the petition reads.

“We call upon Shell to act immediately to have this vessel renamed or removed, and for an apology to be made to those for whom this ship’s acceptance by Shell is a grotesque betrayal.”

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Allseas Agrees to ‘Pieter Schelte’ Name Change – Report

BY MIKE SCHULER ON FEBRUARY 6, 2015

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Pieter Schelte on sea trials near the DSME shipyard in South Korea, where the ship was constructed.

Swiss-based Allseas Group has reportedly agreed to change the name of its Pieter Schelte vessel amid recent public outcry over the vessel’s namesake being a convicted Nazi war criminal.

Allseas and the giant Pieter Schelte, now in Rotterdam for final assembly, came under fire this week from Jewish communities in Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the International Transport Workers’ Federation union, who have all strongly demanded that the name be changed.

The Pieter Schelte, a unique and massive catamaran-like vessel built to remove decommissioned oil platforms from the North Sea, is the brainchild of Allseas’ founder Edward Hereema who named the vessel in honor of his Dutch father, Pieter Schelte Hereema, a marine engineer who is considered a pioneer in the offshore oil and gas industry.

During WWII however, Pieter Schelte Hereema served as an officer in the Nazi’s Waffen-SS and was eventually convicted of war crimes for his involvement, for which he served over 1.5 years in prison.

Allseas has always stuck by the name despite year’s of criticism, however, according to a report Friday from the Associated Press, the company and Edward Hereema have now agreed to the name change over “widespread reactions”.

Royal Dutch Shell has also come under fire over the name because the company is already planning to use the ship to decommission the Brent oilfield located in UK waters.

“It has never been the intention to offend anyone,” the company said in a statement released Friday and obtained the AP.

The statement did not indicate what the new name might be but said that it will be revealed “within a few days”.

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Pieter Schelte Renamed

BY ROB ALMEIDA ON FEBRUARY 9, 2015

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Pieter Schelte arrives in Rotterdam, January 2015. Photo: KOTUG International B.V.

Allseas’ giant oil rig decommissioning vessel was initially named after Pieter Schelte Heerema who besides creating one of the world’s premier offshore contracting companies, had also spent time in prison after being convicted of war crimes while serving as a Waffen-SS officer during World War II.

Heerema had deserted from the Nazis and ended up joining the Dutch resistance in 1943 however.

As the full story of this man came to light, outrage spread throughout Europe that such an impressive and conspicuous ship would be linked to a person who, besides being incredibly influential within the offshore sector, had a checkered past.

Allseas has announced today the ship is now being renamed “Pioneering Spirit” reflecting the new technological step in platform installation and decommissioning that this vessel represents.

“It also fits the 30-year tradition of Allseas to pioneer and surpass technical boundaries, as was done over the years introducing pipelay on dynamic positioning and laying pipelines in ever deeper waters. This vessel encompasses all innovations that have been developed by Allseas over the last 30 years,” Allseas notes in a statement on Monday.

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Decades in the Making, Record-Breaking ‘Pioneering Spirit’ Completes First Lift [PHOTOS]

August 23, 2016 by Mike Schuler

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Allseas’ giant installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit successfully executed her maiden heavy lift project on Monday with the removal of the 13,500 ton Yme mobile offshore production unit (MOPU) in the North Sea.

Allseas said in a statement Monday that the job demonstrates the unique single-lift capability of the Pioneering Spirit.

The dynamically positioned, catamaran-like Pioneering Spirit was designed in-house by Swiss-based Allseas for single-lift installation and removal of large offshore oil and gas platforms, and the installation of oil and gas pipelines.

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At 382 meters long and 124 meters wide, the Pioneering Spirit is one of the largest ships ever constructed.

At the bow it features a 122 m long by 59 m wide slot that enables the vessel to straddle a platform and remove entire topsides in a single lift using eight sets of horizontal lifting beams.

The vessel features a topside lift capacity of 48,000 tons, making it one of the most capable heavy-lift ships in the world.

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The Pioneering Spirit was built in South Korea by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering and arrived in Rotterdam for final outfitting in January 2015.

The vessel has been under construction since at least 2010, but its concept design for actually dates back nearly 30 years, and was based on two tankers placed side-by-side.

Edward Hereema has called the vessel one of the biggest bets of his career – rumored to cost some $3 billion to build.

The vessel was originally named Pieter Schelte after offshore heavy lifting pioneer Pieter Schelte Heerema (1908–81), the father of Allseas’ founder Edward Hereema, but the vessel was renamed in February 2015 amid public outcry over the vessel’s namesake being a convicted Nazi war criminal.

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The Yme platform is located about 62 miles off the coast of Norway in the central part of the North Sea.

The platform, which has never actually produced any oil, was previously operated by Canada’s Talisman but is now owned by Repsol.

It has been unmanned since 2012 after cracks were found in the platform’s legs.

The Yme platform is a jack-up type platform standing on three steel legs of 3.5 meter diameter, which are inserted approximately 10 meters inside the subsea storage tank columns at 93 meters water depth.

The platform is now fastened on board and the Pioneering Spirit, headed to the newly developed dismantling yard in Lutelandet, Norway.

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