PSC Fagioli has been given an official Guiness World Record certificate for lifting an oil rig deck that weighs 12,112 tonnes to a height of 52.8m.
The heavylift specialist lifted, skidded and loaded-out the Shell Nakika semi submersible oil rig in Ulsan, South Korea for contractor Hyundai Heavy Industries.
Fagioli PSC used Hyundai’s lifting towers and 38 of its L600 strand jacks, with fourteen L12/8E power packs and two inter-linked remote computer control systems. The lift took approximately 30 hours and was completed on 4 October 2002. The full project was completed just last month.
The lifting of the deck allowed the lower hull section – known as the pontoon – to be skidded 120 metres underneath the deck. The pontoon consisted of four sections weighing a total of 7,000t. The skidding operation used four L600 jacks and two L2/70E power packs.
Once the deck had been connected to the lower hull section, the whole structure weighing 31,800t was loaded out onto a barge over a distance of 125m.
