Swiss company Allseas is considering to construct a vessel big enough, in order to remove some of the world’s biggest oil and gas platforms when they stop their production lives, the company informed.
Namely, the new vessel will be called Amazing Grace, and it will be able to remove the heaviest platforms reduce decommissioning costs for global oil and gas producers. The ship will be bigger than the current Allseas’s ‘Pioneering Spirit’, Reuters reported.
If the ship is built it will be the biggest vessel of its kind, having a 50% more lifting capacity than ‘Pioneering Spirit’. Amazing Grace will be 160 metres in length, being one third longer than Pioneering Spirit.
The vessel will have the ability to remove the biggest platforms of Statfjord, Gullfaks and Thistle fields offshore Norway and Britain, for which Allseas is contracted to conduct a platform removal concept research.
