Heerema lands Dagny jacket award

Schematic: for Dagny development plan

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Steve Marshall

 07 February 2013 11:53 GMT

Netherlands-based Heerema Fabrication Group has landed a contract with Statoil to build the jacket for the Dagny field off Norway, with an award still pending on the topsides for the production platform.

The engineering, procurement and construction work on the 16,000-tonne launch jacket will be performed by the Dutch builder’s Vlissingen yard, which has also been handed a similar award for a  155-tonne pre-drilling module on the facility.

Heerema offshoot HFG Engineering had already carried out front-end engineering and design for the jacket and construction of the unit – which will be the largest such jacket ever built by the yard – is scheduled to start in November with planned delivery in April 2015. No value was disclosed for the award.

The 142-metre high jacket will have a footprint of 60 by 50 metres,…

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