Netherlands- based Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) claims it has actually obtained notification from ConocoPhillips concerning its intent to participate in an agreement for a significant overseas decommissioning task in the North Sea.

Under the agreement Heerema Marine Contractors and also its companion AF Gruppen will certainly eliminate and also deal with systems linked to the Ekofisk area in theNorth Sea The agreement consists of Engineering, Preparation, Removal & & Disposal (EPRD) of 4 systems with an overall tonnage of approx. 36,000 tonnes.

HMC claims the systems are to be gotten rid of and also gotten rid of from 2017 to 2022.

HMC did not define which vessels it would certainly make use of for the task. The business presently has 3 of the globe’s biggest crane vessels: the semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf, the crane-equipped deepwater building and construction vessel (DCV) Balder, and also SSCVHermod HMC additionally presently creating a the new-generation semi-submersible crane vessel, the Sleipnir, which is arranged for distribution in 2018. The Sleipnir outfitted with 2 cranes of 10,000 statistics tonnes raising ability each and also a strengthened deck location of 220 meters in size and also 102 meters in size, which will certainly make it the biggest crane vessel worldwide.