Heerema achieves largest single lift jacket removal

For the jacket removal, Sleipnir arrived at the Jotun Field located 200 km west of Stavanger on 11 July, and completed the project by offloading the jacket onto the quayside at the AF Miljøbase decommissioning site in Vats, Norway on 16 July.

The decommissioning work was completed safely, sustainably, and one day ahead of schedule. The entire removal scope in the Jotun Field was completed in only four days.

During this project, skirt piles with diameters 2.7 m and 80 mm wall thickness were cut subsea, the largest ever done in this way. Additionally, Heerema fabricated a 40 m long spreaderbar within 2 mm tolerance for a tight, but perfect fit.

Sleipnir is the world’s most sustainable SSCV, and during the project, the vessel performed the full removal operations while running on emission-reducing LNG fuel. By using LNG, Sleipnir reduces CO₂ emissions by 25%, reduces NOx emissions by 92%, reduces SOx emissions by 99%, and particulate materials by <99% compared to traditional marine gas oil crane vessels.

Now that the Jotun-B jacket has been safely and sustainably transported to Vats, it will end its lifecycle by being recycled up to 99%.

Image courtesy of Heerema

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