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An Allseas project. This is one of anchor winch gearboxes supplied for a project of the largest construction vessel ever built, formerly known as Pieter Schelte. (Due to the uncovered nazi history of the person the vessel was renamed to the Pioneering Spirit.) Inspired by the offshore heavy lifting pioneer Pieter Schelte Heerema (1908–81) and designed completely in-house, the vessel is designed for the single-lift installation and removal of large oil and gas platforms and the installation of record-weight pipelines.
The emergence of Pioneering Spirit signifies a step-change in offshore installation and decommissioning. Built at the DSME shipyard in South Korea (2011–14), the vessel commenced offshore operations in the summer of 2016 and set a new offshore lifting record with her first commercial job, removal of Repsol’s 13.500 t Yme production unit in the Norwegian North Sea, on 22 August 2016.