900km Offshore Pipeline Contract for Allseas
South Stream Transport has awarded the Allseas Group a contract to lay the first line of the TurkStream offshore gas pipeline in the Black Sea, with an option for laying the second line. According to the contract, Allseas is to lay more than 900km of pipes on the seabed.
For the job the Pioneering Spirit, the world’s largest construction vessel, will be engaged. The Pioneering Spirit is able to install record-weight pipelines from shallow to ultra-deep water, and has an S-lay tension capacity of 2,000t. The vessel, currently in the Alexiahaven in Rotterdam, is equipped with a double-joint factory, six welding stations for double joints and six coating stations.
Allseas will start laying the first line in the second half of 2017.