Scope: To pull out all the three legs and renew the damaged racks
Timing: Jan 2018 – April 2018 (25/01/2018 –29/04/2018)
Class: BV
Major highlights: Completed within and as per the contract to full satisfaction of owner and DNV-GL, without being even a single first aid case reported.
GPK, UAE contracted Albwardy Damen to pull out all the three legs of their lift-boat, Kingfish and renew the damaged racks.
Work carried out:
Pulling out the legs and rack renewal
- Lift out all the three legs (135 tons approx. each leg) using 600ton crawler crane
- Erect staging on either sides of all the legs
- Degrease and hydro-blast the legs
- Carryout survey and prepare reports on the condition of the racks
- Finalize the damaged racks that needs to be renewed with the owners and class (more than 200m of racks renewed)
- Crop out, prepare the surface, fit-up the new racks, match the timings with the existing racks, pre-heating, welding, post weld heat treatment and NDT
- Calibrate the legs and leg towers and finalize the size of the shims in the towers and renew accordingly
- Lift back the legs and insert through the tower and weld to the pads and NDT