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Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is a contractor headquartered in the
The was added to the HeereMac fleet, and upon the split of the companies in December 1997, Heerema took ownership of the ''Thialf'', the largest deep water construction vessel and is capable of a tandem lift of 14,200 t (15,600 short tons)
The was affected by a flooding incident in 2006 and was put out of service for a few months.
Since 2022 the company is led by
Heerema's vessel location map
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Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is a contractor headquartered in the Netherlands
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most notable for operation of three of the largest crane vessel
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s in the offshore industry.
History
Heerema Marine Contractors was formed in 1948 by Pieter Schelte Heerema as a small construction company providing oilfield platforms inVenezuela
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In the 1960s the company focused on the North Sea offshore developments. The company developed crane vessels to lift large offshore platforms and modules. The ship shaped crane vessel ''Challenger'' was equipped to lift 800 t.
The need for large stable crane vessels to operate in the North Sea environment lead the company to develop the first large semi-submersible
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*Heavy-lift ship, which partially submerge to allow their cargo (another ship) to float into place for transport
*Narco-submarine, some of which remained partially on the surface
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crane vessels. In 1978, HMC commissioned Mitsui
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to construct the two sister semi-submersible crane vessels, and SSCV ''Hermod''. These vessels could lift 5,400 tonnes with the twin cranes, and were later upgraded to 8,200 tonnes.
In 1988 HMC formed a joint venture with McDermott
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called HeereMac.
The was added to the HeereMac fleet, and upon the split of the companies in December 1997, Heerema took ownership of the ''Thialf'', the largest deep water construction vessel and is capable of a tandem lift of 14,200 t (15,600 short tons)
The was affected by a flooding incident in 2006 and was put out of service for a few months.
Since 2022 the company is led by CEO
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
Philippe Barril.https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/europe/417075/heerema-marine-contractors-ceo-philippe-barril/
Vessels
Heerema presently owns and operates the followingcrane vessel
A crane vessel, crane ship or floating crane is a ship with a crane specialized in lifting heavy loads. The largest crane vessels are used for offshore construction. Conventional monohulls are used, but the largest crane vessels are often catam ...
s:
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* - Decommissioned late 2017
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*Kolga tug
*Bylgia tug
Plus a number of barges.
Significant installations
* '' Bullwinkle'' * '' Perdido Spar'' * ''Thunder Horse PDQ
''Thunder Horse PDQ'' is a BP plc and ExxonMobil joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on location over the Mississippi Canyon Thunder Horse oil field (Block 778/822), in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, southeast of New Orleans, moored in wat ...
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* ''Peregrino
Peregrino is an oil field (block BM-C-7) located offshore of Brazil, east of Rio de Janeiro, in the southwest part of the Campos Basin area with about of oil in place within the sanctioned area. The oil field was discovered in 2004 and was for ...
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* '' Kaombo''
References
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Engineering companies of the Netherlands Offshore engineering Oilfield services companies Oil companies of the Netherlands Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1948 Non-renewable resource companies established in 1948 1948 establishments in the Netherlands