Any news and footage will be shared by Heerema on LinkedIn, Facebook, and on their webpage. The vessel is due to depart at the end of March for the first of several jobs.Īs the Netherlands and the wider world continue in quarantine, Heerema advise the public to stay at home. Heerema value sustainability and by using Sleipnir their clients can clean up retired production platforms with the cleanest SSCV on the seas. Sleipnir has so far performed successful installations worldwide, and next, the vessel will be engaged in decommissioning work across the North Sea.

Before heading to Trinidad for more successfully executed installation work. From here, Sleipnir crossed the Atlantic and worked on the Peregrino C platform installation for Equinor in Brazilian waters. Living up to its mythical namesake, the vessel had already broken lifting records for crane vessels with a 15,300 metric ton lift in September 2019. This lift was during Sleipnir’s first project, the Noble Energy Leviathan installation, located in the Mediterranean Sea in Israeli waters. Its gross tonnage (GT) is 136,709 tonnes. The ship, with a lifting capacity of 14,200 tonnes, measures 201.6 metres in length and has a width of 88.4 metres. The vessel is en route to the port of Stavanger, Norway, and expected to arrive. Up until the Sleipnir was delivered, the Thialf was the largest semi-submersible crane ship in the world. The current position of SLEIPNIR is at North Sea reported 0 min ago by AIS. The vessel has two cranes onboard, each capable of lifting 10,000 metric tons – meaning Sleipnir could lift two Eiffel Towers, one on each crane! The semi-submersible crane ship is in the Netherlands for maintenance. Sleipnir is the world’s first crane vessel to have dual-fuel engines that run on MGO and LNG, drastically reducing harmful emissions. Named after the Norse God Odin’s eight-legged stallion, Sleipnir stands at 220 meters long, 102 meters wide, can accommodate 400 employees, and weighs 119,000 tons. Sembcorp Marine, a Singaporean ship and offshore builder, completed the construction of Sleipnir in July 2019, and since then, the vessel has been busy across the globe. The world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir will arrive in the Port of Rotterdam for the first time on Saturday, March 21. Currently the largest crane ship in the world, it is equipped with two slewing cranes, each with a capacity of 10,000 tons. Heerema Marine Contractors semi-submersible crane ship SSCV Sleipnir is moored just outside Stavanger. Topics: decommissioning work, Heerema, Noble Energy Leviathan installation, Peregrino C platform installation, rotterdam, Sleipnir, Trinidad SSCV Sleipnir is the worlds largest offshore heavy lifting shi.

Sleipnir crane ship