ENGINEERINGNET.EU -- The assignment for Chevron for the installation of the Wheatstone pipeline at the west coast of Australia is the largest contract. Before installing the pipeline, trenches must be dredged in the hard seabed. In order to protect the pipeline, it must be covered with sand and rocks after installation.
In Canada, the ‘Cristóbal Colón’ will excavate a Glory Hole in the Atlantic Ocean to protect subsea oil installations from icebergs. And at the east coast of the Siberian island of Sakhalin, the ‘Simon Stevin’ will install umbilicals for Gazprom at 90 m water depth. These umbilicals serve to control the gas field manifolds from land.
Further up the east coast of this island, the Cutter Suction Dredger ‘Fernão de Magelhães’ is dredging an access channel for Exxon. This channel will enable to bring in barges from the sea onto the shore with modules for the onshore drill site.
And finally, Jan De Nul Group will sail even more up to the north, in the Barents Sea near Nova Zembla. The Group will execute dredging and rock dumping works to protect pipelines which are transporting gas from the Jamal Peninsula to Western Europe.
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In July 2012, the Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger ‘Bartolomeu Dias’ was launched at Uljanik Brodogradiliste d.d. shipyard in Pula (Croatia). This is a sister vessel of the ‘Pedro Álvares Cabral’ that was launched in the beginning of this year, also at this shipyard in Pula.
BACKGROUND
Despite its position as a world leader the Belgium based Jan De Nul Group is still a family business, employing more than 6,000 people worldwide. The activities entail 3 main business units: dredging projects, civil engineering and environmental activities.
