OIL & GAS Ӏ SECTOR REPORT
Al Faris puts 30-metre vessel on 18-axle lines for tandem lift
Heavy haulage missions are an essential part of commissioning oil and gas plants. Al Faris was charged with moving and then erecting a 30-metre absorber vessel in Abu Dhabi. “The vessel weighs 65.1-tonnes and
is three metres in diameter. The path led from the Industrial City of Abu Dhabi to Mubarraz island, by road and marine transportation” said Revon Pereira, marketing executive at Al Faris. The company used its fl eet of Cometto
SPTMs for the task. It includes 64 self- propelled MSPE axle lines with an axle load of 48 tonnes, four 331kW Power Pack Units and numerous accessories. Due to the size of the item the team put together a trailer confi guration with 18 axle lines. The vessel arrived safely at the island.
For erection on-site they made a tandem lift using two Liebherr mobile cranes, with lifting capacity of 800 tonnes and 200 tonnes respectively, to set it on its foundation.
customised load charts and,
in particular, its capability to preselect barge inclinations, which automatically applies the permitted load curve. The LR 1400 SX has recently been commissioned and since May 2023 has been working with Bapco and its refinery in Bahrain. The company is hoping for more Liebherr crawler crane purchases to come. Large Tadano crawlers are also being used in the region. At the start of the year Kuwaiti construction contractor NBTC ordered the new Tadano CC 88.1600-1 lattice boom crawler. NBTC is familiar with the brand: “We have numerous Tadano all terrain cranes in our fleet, and also three lattice boom crawler cranes, two of them CC 38.650-1 and a CC 24.400 1, that have demonstrated their reliability and performance for years now,” said Group Chairman K. G. Abraham. “The CC 88.1600-1 crawler we have ordered has a maximum
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capacity of 1600t and an enormous load moment of close to 27,500 tonne-meters, which makes it a significant upgrade for our fleet.” One reason for the order
was to take care of an upcoming large-scale project, meaning that extremely demanding work is already awaiting the crane and its debut. The group will be using the CC 88.1600-1 for forthcoming projects in Kuwait and for all types of infrastructure and oil projects throughout the Middle East. Moreover, with the crane, the
company’s Equipment Division expands its equipment leasing offer for the Middle East. And even though the CC 88.1600-1 is not NBTC’s first Tadano crane, the purchase still marks a first: it is the first brand-new Tadano to join the company’s fleet. It joins more than 200 cranes and 46 multi-axle liners, which put the group in a perfect position to cover the requirements of the oil and gas sector. The Sparrows Group,
headquartered in Aberdeen, is an engineering and maintenance service specialist for the global energy and industrial sectors, and it too is flourishing in its Middle East operations. The group has been awarded a major crane replacement contract for a client there. The project, which is worth $13m, is expected to last 18 months. The work will see Sparrows complete all aspects of the engineering required to replace four BOS Liebherr cranes of four offshore platforms, which are now beyond their expected operational life. Sparrows will handle all crane interfaces, installation, commissioning and testing, as well as engineered lift plans for the removal and installation of the cranes using a lift barge, which is to be supplied by the main contractor, along with the new cranes. The project will be carried out in two phases, with phase one taking place onshore, from the company’s Abu Dhabi facility and workshop and
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