Liebherr Delivering the 1000th
Offshore Crane Order
· Golden anniversary for Liebherr-Werk
Nenzing. The crane manufacturer celebrates order receipt for their
thousandth offshore crane. · These will be the first RL-K series cranes
for Total, and the first Ex-rated knuckle-boom cranes for Liebherr.
Nenzing (Austria), July 2015 - Liebherr Offshore
Crane Division has almost completed another project with long-term partner
TOTAL. Three state-of-the-art ram luffing knuckle-boom cranes of the type
RL-K 4200 will be delivered for Total’s Egina Floating Production Storage
and Offloading (FPSO) vessel.
The Oil and Gas market is a truly
global one, with companies from all around the world participating to
finally making a project a reality. For Total’s Egina FPSO this is
certainly true, with the French giant commanding the project, Korea’s
Samsung Heavy Industries building the hull and partial topsides plus
assisting local Nigerian companies in establishing manufacturing
facilities for approximately 15,000t of steelwork in line with the Local
Content legislation. International partners include CNOOC, Petrobras and
Sapetro. So what better project for Liebherr to build the cranes and
supply them from their Rostock facility in Northern Germany?
“Our first
dealings with Total go all the way back to 1985, but our more recent
involvement included cranes for all of the New Build FPSO projects such as
Dalia in 2005, Pazflor in 2009, Clov in 2013 and now with Egina,” said
Gordon Clark, Sales Director of the Liebherr offshore crane division. “We
also have a number of cranes on several of Total’s fixed platforms.”
For Egina, Liebherr will deliver three of their newest series of cranes,
the RL-K 4200 knuckle-boom cranes, all Ex-rated. These will be the first
RL-K series cranes for Total, and the first Ex-rated knuckle-boom cranes
for Liebherr, so a great milestone for both companies.
Technical details Egina is a deep water project, set 130 km from the
Nigerian coast in 1,750 mtr of water. It is expected to be on line in 2017
and to produce 200,000 b/d, with on-board storage capacity of up to 2.3
million barrels. The vessel is 330 mtr long, 61 mtr beam and 33.5 mtr
deep. Testing of the first unit will be carried out with the customer
on the test area in Germany in August, with delivery coming later in the
year.
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Modern test environment at Liebherr in Rostock Currently,
the cranes are being constructed at Liebherr`s modern facilities in the
harbour city of Rostock, northern Germany. To support this new range of
cranes, Liebherr developed an ultra-modern test environment to load and
function-test the cranes before delivery in accordance with all relevant
offshore regulations. This significantly reduces the risk of problems on
the customer’s job site. „It certainly gives you peace of mind to have the
equipment fully tested with your customer before shipment“, says Clark.
„With our excellent transport facilities in Rostock, such as a 300 meter
deep-water-quay for sea-going vessels, loading the finished product on to
an international carrier means we can be the perfect partner for our
world-wide client base“, he adds.
For more information please visit
www.liebherr.com and/or the
Liebherr Offshore Crane Division
Source: Joachim Dobler Marketing Manager Maritime Cranes,
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing
Published by Liebherr_MCCtec Rostock GmbH
See also:
Liebherr
sells first set of knuckle boom cranes to China
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