Timeline
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- Awarded multiple T&I contracts for offshore wind industry (incl. 15 slots for TenneT’s ambitious 2GW programme)
- Launch of second shallow water pipelay barge Sandpiper
- Completes first project in Sawarkian waters, offshore Malaysia
- Selected as replacement contractor for bp’s ultra-deepwater GTA pipeline
- Successful offshore debut for in-house AUT system Dolphin
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- Allseas celebrates its 37th anniversary
- Pioneering Spirit‘s Jacket lift system enters the final installation phase
- Pioneering Spirit executes first successful project, the removal of the Ninian Northern jacket with revolutionary Jacket lift system
- Successful Atlantic ultra-deepwater tests for Allseas’ mineral collector
- Catchy 2, Allseas’ latest river waste removal system inaugurated in Rotterdam
- Pioneering Spirit completes 30,000-tonne Gyda platform removal
- Pioneering Spirit installs jacket and topsides of DolWin kappa offshore converter station
- Allseas founder Edward Heerema steps aside as President. Eldest son Pieter will assume the role of President of the Allseas Group
- First deep-sea polymetallic nodules surface after 4 kilometre journey
- Allseas opens office in Malaysia
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- Allseas’ president Edward Heerema receives the OTC Heritage award for his “long-term continuous, distinguished service in management and leadership of offshore installation for the deepwater industry”.
- Pioneering Spirit executes the single-lift removal of the former DP3 gas production topsides from Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay development in the East Irish Sea.
- Pioneering Spirit crane-lifts the 2500-t Valhall QP lower jacket.
- Pioneering Spirit delivers the new module for CNOOC International’s Buzzard Phase II development in the North Sea’s Outer Moray Firth, east of Scotland.
- Pioneering Spirit installs a high-voltage convertor platform for the Saint-Nazaire offshore windfarm development in the Bay of Biscay.
- Pioneering Spirit surpassed the 200,000 tonne mark for lifted platform weight.
- The two steel beams for Pioneering Spirit’s new Jacket lift system (JLS) arrive in Rotterdam.
- Pioneering Spirit installs the offshore transformer station of the Hollandse Kust (zuid) Alpha platform in the North Sea.
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- Allseas celebrates its 35th anniversary
- Pioneering Spirit removes Shell UK’s 17,000-tonne Brent Alpha platform from the North Sea
- Pioneering Spirit completes a successful processing and accommodation topsides and flare jackets removal campaign as part of the Tyra Redevelopment Project for Total E&P Denmark
- Pioneering Spirit lifts the Ninian Northern topside of the North Sea’s 14,200 t
- Allseas installs river waste collection system “Catchy” in the Vijfsluizer harbour in Schiedam
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- Gates open at Allseas’ new state-of-the-art fabrications yard in Heijningen, the Netherlands
- With all major fabrication scopes awarded, in January production starts on key elements of Pioneering Spirit‘s Jacket Lift System
- Lorelay executes four above water tie-ins in the Black Sea – an industry first for a dynamically positioned pipelay vessel
- Pioneering Spirit sets offshore lift record during Johan Sverdrup P1 and LQ topsides installation offshore Norway
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- Allseas adds state-of-the-art multipurpose offshore construction vessel Fortitude to its fleet
- Pioneering Spirit executes the single-lift installation of Equinor’s 22,000 t Johan Sverdrup DP topsides on its jacket offshore Norway
- Pioneering Spirit completes the record-breaking TurkStream pipeline a month ahead of schedule
- Construction starts on Nord Stream 2, the longest pipeline in Allseas’ history
- 2018 is a record year for Allseas, with 2500 km of pipeline installed
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- Pioneering Spirit set a world lifting record with the removal of Shell UK’s 24,000 t Brent Delta platform topsides from the North Sea.
- Pioneering Spirit starts work on TurkStream, the vessel’s first pipelay job.
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- Allseas’ founder Edward Heerema was installed as Fellow Chartered Engineer on 12 April 2016 by The Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers (KIVI).
- Allseas orders a new 5000 t special purpose crane for Pioneering Spirit, to be installed in the second half of 2018.
- Pioneering Spirit completes maiden heavy lift project.
- Allseas acquires the construction support vessel Oceanic
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- Pieter Schelte arrives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 8 January 2015
- Pieter Schelte renamed Pioneering Spirit
- Statoil awards Allseas an installation contract for three topsides for the Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian North Sea
- Pioneering Spirit christened in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 27 February 2015
- Allseas celebrates its 30th anniversary
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- Daewoo delivers Pieter Schelte
- Allseas opens a new Innovations office in Enschede, the Netherlands
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- Allseas announces plans to build Amazing Grace, a single-lift vessel larger than Pieter Schelte
- Opens a new fabrication yard in Heusden, the Netherlands
- Shell awards Allseas the contract for removal of the Brent field platforms
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- Allseas opens fabrication a yard in IJmuiden, the Netherlands, and an Innovations office in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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- Allseas acquires long-time Dutch supplier Machinefabriek Schaap
- First steel cut for Pieter Schelte at the Daewoo shipyard
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- Allseas celebrates a quarter of a century
- Awards building contract for Pieter Schelte to Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in South Korea
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- Allseas opens an engineering office in Mumbai, India
- Awards detail design of Pieter Schelte to Deltamarin, Finland
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- Allseas installs 150 km of umbilical on the Reliance KGD6 project offshore India
- Becomes the world’s first vessel owner to equip its fleet with heavy arms in protection of its crew
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- Audacia starts her first project in the North Sea for Shell
- Allseas announces plans to build Pieter Schelte
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- Calamity Jane conversion commences in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- 10,000 km of pipeline laid and 2800 km trenched since 1986
- Solitaire undergoes a major upgrade to increase her pipelay capability for greater water depths and heavier pipes
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- Execution of first project in the Persian Gulf
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- Execution of first project offshore South East Asia
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- Execution of first project offshore Canada
- Contractor with highest number of kilometers of pipe installed in the Gulf of Mexico in this year
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- Lorelay lays the Auger pipeline for Shell, her first deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico
- 2000 km pipeline laid and over 1000 km trenched since 1986
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- Allseas’ automatic welding system Phoenix, developed wholly in-house, becomes operational
- Solitaire conversion gets underway in Singapore
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- Lorelay lays the Santa Ynez pipeline for Exxon offshore California in the Pacific Ocean, Allseas’ first USA project
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- Allseas launches Trenchsetter, a DP support vessel for Allseas’ mechanical subsea pipeline trencher Digging Donald
- Allseas executes the Mossgas project in South Africa, Allseas’ first contract outside the North Sea
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- Allseas acquires a prominent position in the North Sea pipelay market
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- Allseas launches the concept for Pieter Schelte, a platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel
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- Allseas, founded in January 1985, opens offices in Châtel Saint-Denis, Switzerland, and The Hague, the Netherlands
- Allseas invents the concept of pipelaying on DP (dynamic positioning) and builds Lorelay, the world’s first DP pipelay vessel