Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Largest Worlship with newest technology

It takes quite a bit of technological ingenuity to realise a system with which you can accurately keep a sea giant at location under any weather conditions. Imtech (Imtech Marine & Offshore) is providing virtually all of the technological solutions for Allseas’ new work ship the ‘Pieter Schelte’ (the largest in the world at 360 by 117 metres). The ‘Pieter Schelte’ can (dis)assemble or move both jackets (underpinning construction of oil or gas platforms) and topsides (the part that stands on top of the jacket and where the processing of oil and/or gas takes place). Since the work ship also houses a high tech system for laying pipelines on the bottom of the ocean, the ship can also play a role in creating transport for oil and/or gas. Imtech is installing, among other things, a dynamic positioning system which will allow it to function at sea to the accuracy of a millimetre. The ship is also being equipped with diesel electric energy generators: the most modern, efficient and environmentally friendly solution available today.

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