At 330 metres from stem to stern, Saipem’s Castorone immediately joined the ranks of the world’s largest pipelay vessels upon delivery in 2012.

Its current topsides equipment, installed at the Keppel Offshore & Marine yard in Singapore, includes an S-lay system with three tensioners for an overall pulling capacity of 750 tonnes in normal lay mode.

It has 67 MW of installed power to fuel both the high capacity lay equipment and the dynamic positioning (DP) class 3 system.

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