Offshore set up providers agency Allseas has inaugurated ‘Sandpiper’, its new barge for shallow water offshore development actions.
Allseas stated Thursday that the 170-meter barge was inaugurated this week in Singapore with a particular ceremony after a number of upgrading actions in 2022/2023.Â
The vessel is is a flat-bottom, anchored barge for shallow water offshore development actions, bought by Allseas in 2022 and upgraded for pipelaying in 2022/23.
Sandpiper is provided with a 10-point mooring system, pipelay tools appropriate for laying pipe as much as of 60 inches in diameter, and a piggyback firing line for six.50 inch-diameter pipe. Sandpiper can be fitted with a davit system that permits her to carry out ‘mid-line’ tie-ins and a 800 t crane for development work. Â
Sandpiper is deliberate for worldwide operations, primarily in shallow water areas, each in help of Allseas’ pipelayers and for impartial contracting. It might probably lay pipes as much as a water depth of 150 m. Deeper water initiatives are doable with modifications relying on the initiatives specifics.
Vessel specs
| Size total | 170 m (558 ft)Â |
| Size between perpendiculars | 120 m (394 ft)Â |
| Breadth | 31.7 m (104 ft)Â |
| Depth to fundamental deck | 9 m (30 ft)Â |
| Mooring system | Anchored barge; 10x 12 t anchors |
| Accomodation | 214 individuals |
| Helideck | 12 t (CAP 437 compliant)Â |
| Deck cranes | Offshore mast crane: Huisman 800 t @ 26.7 m radius. Min working radius 8.5 m. Max working radius 52.0 m. Essential hoist, auxiliary hoist, sling hoist x2, tuggers x2Â |
| Work stations | 4x welding, 1x NDT, 3x coating, 1x piggyback |
| Put in stress capability | 2 x 75 mt |
| Pipe cargo capability | 12.5 mt/m2Â |
| Pipe diameters | 8-60 inch (inc. coating)Â |
| Clear deck area | Approx. 1000 m2Â |
| Classifications | ABS Â |
| Davits | 6x 90 t |
| Port of registry | Valletta, Malta |
