Offshore staff
GEOJE ISLAND, South Korea – ALE has loaded-out two topsides modules weighing in total more than 20,000 tons at the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea.
These are destined for the fixedMartin Linge platform in the Norwegian North Sea.
ALE was asked to perform both weighing and load-out operations for the utility and process modules.
Its specialist division ALE-Offshore Services employed the company’s centrally-controlled synchronized weighing system and weightors: the utility module weighed 9,580 tons and the process module 10,850 tons.
Both modules were then loaded out onto the same vessel in two separate operations over a two-month period, using a special skidding system.
Edwin Blosser, ALE project engineer, said: “As the modules had a high center of gravity, it was extremely challenging to load them out onto the same vessel and control the vessel’s stability.
“We used a computerized skidding system to overcome this, as well as quay jacks to monitor the load.”
Operations took around three months to complete, finishing in December 2017.
02/20/2018
