CFE - 2006 annual report - Vinci

GEO@SEA nv
Geo@Sea is the specialised DEME company focusing on
rock socketing, drilling and installation services for jetty
foundations and mooring systems, the installation of off-
shore structures such as small platforms and outfalls, off-
shore wind farms, and geotechnical investigations at large
depths. In 2006 Geo@Sea was very active in Angola for
the installation of mooring piles for Technip’s largest and
most recent pipe laying vessel “Deep Blue” and in Mexico,
in cooperation with Black & Veatch and VINCI Grands
Projects, a major rock socketing contract was awarded to
Geo@Sea by Saipem for LNG jetty pile installation.
Drilling and blasting operations were executed with jack-
up “Zeebouwer” in Limbe, Cameroon and Castletownbere
in Ireland.
An emerging field of interest is the growing demand for
decommissioning or rejuvenation of offshore structures,
requiring the assistance of jack-up platforms for crane
assistance and accommodation, diving support and heavy
lifting.
The jack-up “Vagant” has been providing accommodation
for the installation crews at the De Ruyter Field for Petro-
Canada in the Southern North Sea. A new contract for the
rejuvenation of a BP-platform in the North Sea is due to
start in the first half of 2007.
Environmental activities: decontamination of
soils and storage of polluted sludges
The total turnover of all environmental activities of
the DEME-group for 2006 is once again in excess of 120
million Euro.
Apart from the existing silt and/or soil recycling centres
in Kallo and Ruisbroek, DEC also started operations in a
new sediment and soil-recycling centre in Zeebrugge in
February 2006. Meanwhile, new plans for more centres are
being prepared.
DEC was very active on various projects, including the
remediation of three acid tar lagoons in the Ghent region
on behalf of Total; a new phase of the remediation of the
‘t Eilandje site in Zwijnaarde; and in Antwerp, the remedia-
tion project “Antwerpen Dam” for NMBS holding where the
site will be enhanced into a 11 ha city park. The design and
installation of a two-phase extraction unit for groundwater
remediation at Janssen Pharmaceutica in Geel was com-
pleted in 2006. The 20-year operation and maintenance
phase, also assigned to DEC, will start in 2007.
In terms of international activities, DEC was active in the
Netherlands through the subsidiary company, de Vries &
van de Wiel and in the United Kingdom where the prestig-
ious “Avenue Coking Works Project” in Chesterfield was
awarded to the VSD Avenue Joint Venture, of which DEC is
one of the three partners. A 100 ha heavily contaminated
gasworks site will have to be cleaned by 2010, creating
continuity and visibility for DEC in the UK market.
C F E A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 0 6 I 1 2 6 e c o r p o r a t e f i n a n c i a l y e a r
Installation of a drilled
mooring system for
the mooring of heavytransport
barges at
Oman.
Remediation of acid tar
lagoons at Ertvelde for
the account of Total.
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