Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel, Stornes, has recently been in Damen Shiprepair & Conversion Rotterdam to upgrade the vessel to make it allow it to operate at greater water depths.
The Stornes is a 175 metres long, 26.24 metres wide, DP2 vessel used for subsea rock installation to protect piping. Since its delivery to Van Oord in 2011, the Stornes has mostly been installing rocks to water depths up to 800 metres. However, a contract awarded to the company in 2013 required the vessel to operate at 1300 metres.
After some minor modifications in 2014, the first phase of the contract was executed. Now, Damen has given the vessel an upgrade to its rock-dumping tower, which enables a better performance at these water depths.
