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j Tadano’s presence in Algeria
has also grown: long-time customer Sarl Meliah Makoudi Services recently took delivery of a GR-900EX-4 rough terrain crane. The company works with customers for a variety of handling and lifting jobs, currently managing a fleet of 11 cranes, six of which are from Tadano.
NORTH SEA SUCCESS Moving to colder climates, Sparrows Group, the UK engineering and maintenance services specialist for the global energy and industrial sectors, is seeking to expand its service roster in the North Sea, to replicate there the drilling services success it has already had in the Middle East and Asia. To support its remarket entry Sparrows has recruited an experienced member to its team with the appointment of Sandy Main as drilling services manager – Europe. Main has more than 30 years’ experience in the drilling services sector and will be based at the company’s headquarters in Aberdeen, Scotland. The appointment follows a
contract worth approximately £50 million that Sparrows secured in the summer of 2022 with a major
A Sparrows technician works on a drill rig derrick
UK Continental Shelf operator to provide crane management services across its operating assets in the North Sea. The five-year agreement, which also has two extension options each of two years, will see Sparrows deliver crane operations and maintenance services across ten of the operator’s assets in the region. Stewart Mitchell, chief executive officer at Sparrows, commented: “This new five-year contract is in addition to the inspection services work which we were awarded by the operator two years ago.”
It means that Sparrows will
continue with the provision of operation, maintenance, and engineering services to ensure the
safety and reliability of 38 cranes. The scope includes development and implementation of planned maintenance routines, as well as undertaking planning and risk assessment for all lifting operations. All onshore support will be carried out from Sparrows’ Aberdeen headquarters, including technical and safety audits, and repair and refurbishment work as required. “Although we have been
diversifying into the renewables and onshore industrial markets in recent years the North Sea remains a core area in the business, so we’re pleased to continue working with the operator across these assets,” said Mitchell.
Liebherr ships two offshore cranes for a gas project in Azerbaijan
At the end of December 2022 Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock, the maritime sector of Liebherr, shipped two BOS 2600 and two BOS 4200 offshore cranes to the Umid Babek Operating Company (UBOC) in Azerbaijan. The delivery is for UBOC’s Umid-2 gas project in the South Caspian sea. The BOS 2600 cranes have a maximum lifting capacity of 45 tonnes; the BOS 4200 models can lift 50 tonnes. Both models have a lattice boom with a maximum outreach of 48 metres on the main hoist and 53 metres on the auxiliary hoist. They are electro-hydraulically driven and equipped with Liebherr Litronic, a control system for precise crane operation. The four cranes were shipped end of 2022 by the
cargo ship ‘E-ship 1’, which is equipped with two Liebherr ship cranes and, unusually, four Flettner rotorsails. These are vertical rotating cylinders which generate propulsive air pressure akin to a ship’s sails, and greatly reduce fuel consumption and hence emissions.
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