Timeline

• 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.

2021

• 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

2020

• 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

2019

• 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

2018

• 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.

2017

• 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

2016

• 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 30^th anniversary

2015

• Daewoo delivers Pieter Schelte
• Allseas opens a new Innovations office in Enschede, the Netherlands

2014

• 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

2013

• Allseas opens fabrication a yard in IJmuiden, the Netherlands, and an Innovations office in Eindhoven, the Netherlands

2012

• Allseas acquires long-time Dutch supplier Machinefabriek Schaap
• First steel cut for Pieter Schelte  at the Daewoo shipyard

2011

• Allseas celebrates a quarter of a century
• Awards building contract for Pieter Schelte  to Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in South Korea

2010

• Allseas opens an engineering office in Mumbai, India
• Awards detail design of Pieter Schelte  to Deltamarin, Finland

2009

• 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

2008

• Audacia  starts her first project in the North Sea for Shell
• Allseas announces plans to build Pieter Schelte

2007

• Audacia  conversion gets underway in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• Solitaire  and  Lorelay  set new depth records, laying 8-inch and 10-inch pipes in 2775 m and a 24-inch pipe in 2550 m water depth in the Gulf of Mexico

2006

• 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

2005

• Execution of first project in the Persian Gulf

2004

• Allseas opens office in Perth, Australia
• Solitaire  sets a new world record, laying 9.3 km of 20-inch pipe in 24 hours

2003

• Allseas develops a dual-head welding system for Phoenix
• Tog Mor  lays her first pipe, offshore Ireland
• Solitaire  sets a new depth record on the Shell Nakika project, reaching 1920 m

2002

• Tog Mor  conversion gets underway in Rotterdam

2001

• Execution of first project offshore South East Asia

2000

• Execution of first project offshore Canada
• Contractor with highest number of kilometers of pipe installed in the Gulf of Mexico in this year

1999

• Solitaire  completes her first project: Statoil Europipe II in the North Sea

1998

• Solitaire  christened, becoming the largest pipelay vessel in the world

1997

• Lorelay  sets a new world record for deepwater pipeline installation, laying a 12-inch rigid steel pipe in 1650 m of water for Shell on the Mensa project
• Solitaire  arrives in Newcastle for completion

1996

• 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

1995

• Allseas opens a USA office in Houston, USA

1994

• Allseas’ automatic welding system Phoenix, developed wholly in-house, becomes operational
• Solitaire  conversion gets underway in Singapore

1993

• Purchase of Trentwood  for conversion to Solitaire
• Opening of the Delft office

1992

• Lorelay  lays the Santa Ynez pipeline for Exxon offshore California in the Pacific Ocean, Allseas’ first USA project

1991

• Opens office in Essen, Belgium

1990

• 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

1989

• Allseas acquires a prominent position in the North Sea pipelay market

1988

• Allseas launches the concept for Pieter Schelte, a platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel

1987

• Lorelay  executes Allseas’ first pipelay contract, for Unocal in the North Sea

1986

• 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

1985