Transport and installation of 14 mooring piles at 1,300 m water depth with a DP2 heavy lift vessel
Sjoerd Meijer A and Richard Krabbendam AJumbo Offshore Vof
The APPEA Journal 50(1) 601-604 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ09037
Published: 2010
Abstract
The Kikeh field is located in water of some 1,300 meters depth, and 65 miles northwest of Labuan, offshore of Sabah (Borneo) in eastern Malaysia. The Kikeh deepwater project (Fig. 1) includes the first spar platform installation outside the Gulf of Mexico. Mooring the 16,400-tonne spar and a tender-assisted drill rig requires the presence of a mooring system comprising 14 mooring piles of different lengths and weights, the largest of which is 55 m long, has a diameter of 2.13 m and weighs 140 tonnes.
After obtaining his Masters Degree in 2003 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Sjoerd Meijer (1978) took on a position with Dutch heavy lift shipping company Jumbo. His passion for the sea combined with an interest in heavy lifting got Sjoerd involved in the development of Jumbo’s Offshore department. During recent years Sjoerd worked as project manager on offshore installation projects, using Jumbo’s fleet of heavy lift vessels. Projects he worked on worldwide include installation of subsea structures, mooring installation and riser installation in ultra deep water. Starting from March 2010 Sjoerd is based in Perth, where he is working on further developing Jumbo Offshore’s business in the Australian and South-East Asian regions. |
Richard L. Krabbendam has a Masters of mechanical engineering from Delft University of Technology and started his career in heavy lift transport and lifting in 1973 with Big Lift of the Netherlands. In 1979 he worked with Mammoet Transport for one year and thereafter for seven years as co-founder/director with ITREC, specialising in engineering of transport and rigging projects. In 1987 he joined Van Seumeren of Holland and in 1989 switched to Jumbo Shipping, where he started a Jumbo Land department, enabling Jumbo to offer a door to door service for heavy lifts. Seven years ago he started to set up Jumbo Offshore and is responsible for the development of special tools, which can be added to Jumbo’s latest addition to their fleet of heavy lift carriers, the J-class. These super heavy lift carriers can integrate heavy transport and installation work in one vessel and use the two 900-tonne Huisman cranes for subsea installation work. rkrabbendam@kahn.nl |
