Huisman has received a first order including three sets of five cranes and several Tiltable Lay Systems for its new production facility in Brazil.
The cranes will be manufactured as soon as construction of the Brazilian production facility is completed in 2014 and are scheduled for delivery between Q3 2015 and Q1 2017.
Cranes for New Build Vessels
The order includes three identical sets of cranes for the new build vessels Cassino, Curumim and Salinas. Each set consists of two 60 mt Pedestal Mounted Offshore Cranes (PMOC), two 60 mt Knuckle Boom Cranes (KBC) and one 12 mt Pipe Handling Knuckle Boom Crane (PHKBC).
The cranes can be used for various applications, including unloading of supply vessels, pipe handling, offshore construction work, and subsea installation.
The first set of cranes will be installed on the Cassino and will be delivered in 2015. In Q2 2016 the Curumim will be equipped with its set of cranes and in Q3 2017 the last set will be installed on board the Salinas.
Servicing the Brazilian Offshore Market
Huisman opened an Engineering, Sales and Service office in Rio de Janeiro to locally support the South American market in 2008 and in 2012 started the construction of their new production facility in the city of Navegantes.
Navegantes is located alongside the river Itajai-Açu in the state Santa Catarina, a state in the southern part of Brazil bordering the Atlantic Ocean. This facility will be used for the manufacturing of construction equipment for the Brazilian offshore market. The new Huisman production facility is planned to be operational in 2014.
Pipelay Equipment for Petrobras
Besides the three sets of cranes, Huisman will also deliver 3 x 550 mt Tiltable Lay Systems for Subsea 7 and the 2 x 650 and 2 x 340 mt Tiltable Lay Systems for Technip-DOF. All these pipelay equipment orders are part of a big Petrobras order and should be ready to serve the Brazilian market in 2017.
Picture: Huisman Navegantes production facility
