Feature 7 | SHIPYARD CRANES Bergen targets Brazil market
Brazil is emerging as a key market for offshore shipbuilding, repair and conversion activity, and the Bergen Group has taken steps to ensure it is well- positioned to meet that trend.
Brazilian-based Koch Metalúrgica, as a result of which the two organisations will deliver crane solutions
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growing Brazilian offshore oil and gas sector. This could include equipment for conversion and upgrade projects, as well as newbuildings, and may also involve the supply of crane systems to shipyards in Brazil. “The cooperation opens up great opportunities in one of
the world’s
most vibrant and demanding oil and gas markets,” says Halldor Rongve, managing director of Bergen Group Dreggen. “The agreement with Koch Metalúrgica strengthens our position in this market without heavy investments or a lengthy period of getting established. Our goal
is that
together we can position ourselves as a major supplier of offshore cranes, manufacturing them in Brazil to meet local content requirements.” Koch Metalúrgica is situated in the
state of Rio Grande do Sul and is a leading supplier of cranes and liſting equipment, not only in Brazil but across Latin America as well. Bergen Group Dreggen is a Norwegian firm and has supplied marine cranes to the international ship building and oil and gas industries for more than 25 years. The company has been active in Brazil, represented by its subsidiary Bergen Group Dreggen do Brasil, for around a year. Both companies are committed to
product development. Any technology to be launched as a result of the joint venture will be marketed under the Dreggen-Koch brand. Mr Rongve adds, “As far as we are
aware, Dreggen-Koch is the first company that is both qualified and has the capacity to offer locally-made marine and offshore cranes of a certain size and complexity to
he Bergen Group’s Dreggen division has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with
A 3D computerised image of the gantry crane solutions that Bergen Dreggen is developing for the Karsto K-lab project.
the Brazilian oil and gas industry, and to the shipyards supplying them.” In Norway Bergen Dreggen has
been awarded a major contract which highlights its ability to deliver gantry crane-based, heavy-lift systems of the type required for demanding applications, such as those encountered by many shipyards.
The company is
to deliver two specialised cranes to the so-called Karsto K-lab project, as part of the development of test facilities for deliveries being made to the Aasgaard Subsea Oilfields. The cranes are designed for a very specific and sequential lift of a subsea module for testing prior to installation subsea. The cranes will be equipped with an advanced PLC system for single and tandem operations, and a number of sophisticated safety features. The contract comprises two 180tonnes
capacity gantry cranes, each 15m high and weighing 150tonnes. The girder
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spans 25m, with a lift height of 12m, and each girder carries two trolleys, equipped with a 90tonnes winch. Delivery of the cranes is scheduled to take place in September this year. Bergen Group Dreggen has also been
awarded a contract by the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea to deliver two large cranes to the Shell FLNG project, Prelude, located on the west coast of Australia. The package of equipment to be supplied includes one hose handling crane, with a lift capacity of 40tonnes at 30m,
to be
delivered in the fourth quarter 2014 and one overhead thruster crane, with two trolleys carrying individual winches with a with 120tonnes capacity, to be delivered in the
second quarter of
2013. The floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility will produce and export LNG and will be the
largest floating offshore facility in the world. SRCT 51
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