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Offloading, Transporting and Positioning
“Mammoet used
a different route
this time”
LOCATION: JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA
JOB: TRANSPORTING AND
INSTALLING EVAPORATORS
CHALLENGE: COMPLEXITY
Mammoet was awarded four main contracts, heavy lifting,
onsite heavy haul, general crane and module transport
along with several sub-contracts for the expansion of
the Scotford Upgrader Expansion 1 project at Fort
Saskatchewan. This project will double the refinery’s
upgrading capacity. Mammoet’s work included offloading,
transporting and positioning ten 500 ton reactor sections
so that they could be welded in pairs. We used a 750-ton
J&R Lift’N’Lock unit, jack and slide equipment and 24
lines of SPMTs for this. Mammoet also built a new strand
jack tower gantry to erect the completed 1,000 ton reactors.
These towers are based on the same design used in
Houston so that all Mammoet towers in North America are
interchangeable. Mammoet used the RK-8500 to erect the
tower system and to tail the reactors. This project reached
its peak towards the end of 2008. At peak times Mammoet
had over fifty cranes and some 90 of their employees on
site, as well as SPMTs, Scheuerle trailers, etc.
Reactors for a French Refinery
Mammoet France was contracted by an oil company to offload two 308 ton reactors, transport
them to the refinery and install them. Mammoet had worked at this refinery before but because
of the congested site and to avoid the need to prepare roads Mammoet used a different route
this time. This meant crossing a relatively weak railway bridge where Mammoet installed a
temporally overbridge. Mammoet then installed the two reactors in one day with a brand new
CC 2800 and a CC 2400 as the tailing crane.
Desalination Plant
One of Mammoet’s clients is building a desalination plant at
Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The plant will include fourteen evaporators,
weighing 1,520 tons each, which are fabricated in Sharjah, UAE.
Mammoet’s scope of work includes: engineering and execution
of load-out, design and fabrication of intermediate supports,
design and fabrication of all grillage and sea fastening works,
supply of marine spread, towage from UAE to Jubail, load-in,
transport to site by SPMT and installation onto foundation.
Despite challenges related to the weather and site restrictions
the work was progressing well. The duration of the project was
one year and Mammoet used 68 axle lines of SPMTs, four power
pack units and a range of auxiliary equipment.
Petrochemical
LOCATION: FORT SASKATCHEWAN,
ALBERTA, CANADA
JOB: HEAVY LIFTING AND HAULING
CHALLENGE: SCALE OF THE PROJECT
“ Built a new
strand jack
tower gantry”
LOCATION: PORT-JÉRÔME, FRANCE
JOB: TRANSPORTING AND LIFTING TWO
REACTORS
CHALLENGE: WEAK BRIDGE