News | Scaldis

31.07.2024

Decommissioning Campaign of 52/5A Platform - Hewett Field

Scaldis completed the decommissioning of the 52/5A Platform

20.07.2024

Decommissioning of L5-B platform

Scaldis completed the decommissioning of the L5-B platform!

10.05.2024

Decommissioning of P12-SW platform

The decommissioning of the P12-SW platform has been completed!

14.04.2024

Decommissoning of the Windermere and Cavendish platforms

Scaldis completed the decommissioning of the Windermere and Cavendisch platforms for INEOS UK SNS Limited!

31.03.2024

Lifting and positioning of 2 concrete prefab pillar structures

Lifting and positioning of 2 concrete prefab pillar structures in Ijmuiden successfully completed!

29.09.2023

ONE-Dyas Removal Campaign Topside & Jacket of P11-E Platform

ONE-Dyas P11-E removal and transport successfully completed!

18.09.2023

Wintershall Decommissioning Campaign of 4 Offshore Platforms: L8-A, L8-H, P6-B & P6-D

Scaldis is proud to have finished the summer decommissioning campaign successfully and most of all safely!

28.03.2023

Courseulles jacket with OSS installation

Another success for the Gulliver!

21.02.2023

Lift Crane on vessel Sea Installer

Scaldis is proud to have contributed to the crane upgrade of DEME’s jack-up vessel ‘Sea Installer’.

03.02.2023

Docking Gulliver 2023

5 years after entering in service , our specialized 4000 tons HLV Gulliver had her first dry docking in Brest , France.

29.08.2022

Installation of 6 water intake and -outlets for the Hinkley Point Project

Scaldis is proud to have safely and successfully concluded the installation of 6 water intake and -outlets for the Hinkley Point Project.

07.07.2022

Installing of 8 units onto the Johan Castberg FPSO

In only 5 days, and shortly interrupted by the necessary turning of the vessel, Scaldis has successfully completed the installation of 2 pipe racks and 6 topside modules onto the hull of Equinor’s impressive Johan Castberg FPSO. The lifting operations took place at the Aker Solutions yard in Stord and have resulted in another eye catcher to Scaldis’ already extensive track record in Norwegian waters.

13.06.2022

Arcadis Ost Offshore Substation Installation

Only 80 days after the successful cooperation at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm, Scaldis has once again installed a topside for an offshore wind farm for Bladt Industries.

06.05.2022

Decommissioning of 2 offshore platforms, Q4A & Q4B for Wintershall Noordzee BV, Dutch Sector of North Sea

On Friday morning May 6th 2022, HLV Gulliver sailed back to her home port, Vlissingen, after a successful offshore campaign, which comprised the decommissioning of the Q4-A and Q4-B platform for Wintershall Noordzee.

31.03.2022

Installation of the OSS of the Kaskasi Wind Farm

Scaldis lifted the Topside and installed it on a monopile as part of the Kaskasi Wind Farm.

17.06.2021

Scaldis heavy lift vessels joining forces

The two heavy lift vessels of Scaldis, Gulliver and Rambiz, arrived at the horizon near Scheveningen beginning of June.

Upon arrival an extensive training and real scale testing and measuring program started for an upcoming unique civil-marine project in shallow but challenging waters and as a result of many engineering hours and a 3D computer simulation.

20.12.2020

Rambiz @ Antwerp

Rambiz arriving back in Antwerp port after 10 years.

09.12.2020

Rambiz arrived at Drydock - Rotterdam

Rambiz arrived at her well-deserved refit at Drydock 8 - Damen shipyard Rotterdam.

25.08.2020

Gulliver Decommissioning Campaign

SCALDIS DP2 Heavy lift vessel GULLIVER is on schedule!

25.05.2020

Lock Gate 1 removal from the Pierre Vandamme lock

The Pierre Vandamme lock is located in the port of Zeebruges. This lock complex is the connection between the inner harbour and Belgian coast. The Pierre Vandamme lock consists of four lock gates and four bridges.

23.03.2020

Scaldis successfully installs two offshore substations at SeaMade with new in-house developed transportation method

The two substations for the SeaMade offshore wind farm have been successfully installed in the Belgian North Sea. This installation marks a major milestone in the construction of Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm.

13.03.2020

Installation Mermaid Topside

Scaldis has installed the first of two Topsides for the Mermaid & Seastar offshore wind farms in the Belgian North Sea and is currently preparing for the second one.

11.03.2020

Project Award Wilhemshaven

Scaldis is proud to be awarded for the heavy lift works for Wilhelmshaven lock, by Hermann GmbH.

16.09.2019

Gulliver installs offshore transformer station on DP

Gulliver installed her first offshore transformer station on DP, within a record time. After an extensive preparation period by our engineers and a good cooperation with our client Bladt Industries we successfully installed the substation on the 10th of September in the Belgian North Sea.

06.03.2019

Belgian Salvage specialist Scaldis lifts Norwegian frigate out of fjord with unique Double Duo Lift method

SCALDIS, the Belgian subsidiary of DEME, Jan De Nul Group and Herbosch-Kiere, in cooperation with BOA Offshore, successfully completed the salvage of the Norwegian frigate 'KNM Helge Ingstad' last Sunday. SCALDIS developed a revolutionary lift method especially for this project, by combining its two heavy lift vessels 'Rambiz' and 'Gulliver'.

04.05.2018

Kriegers Flak Substation KFBE and KFA Installed

Nearly 2 months after installing the gravity based foundations, Scaldis has installed the 2 offshore substations (KFBE and KFA) of the Kriegers Flak Wind Farm for Energinet.DK.

26.04.2018

Gulliver is ready to travel

Last Friday, 20th of April 2018, the fully self-propelled DP2 crane vessel GULLIVER was handed over to the Antwerp-based Scaldis, a subsidiary of DEME, Jan De Nul and Herbosch-Kiere.

21.06.2017

L13-FI Transportation & Installation Monotower

SCALDIS’ first monopile installation without the use of a gripper frame or installation template.

24.04.2017

Rampion Offshore Substation Installed

21.03.2017

Scaldis Decommissions Offshore Platform in 3 days

In April 2016 Tullow Oil awarded Scaldis with the contract to remove the offshore Horne & Wren platform. Scaldis immediately started the extensive preparations and engineering works.

12.02.2017

Stacking Operation at a Yard in Norway

Mid February 2017 Rambiz executed the stacking operation of a drilling module S-620 onto its substructure S-610 at a yard in Norway. Total weight of the drilling module was 1330 T.

Through a good cooperation between Rambiz crew and client an accuracy within millimeters could be achieved.

The complete drilling unit is part of the “Johan Sverdrup” offshore platform.

04.10.2016

Lifting of a Tiltable Pipe Lay System in Rotterdam

The lifting operation was executed on October 4, 2016 at Huisman in Rotterdam (Schiedam), The Netherlands.

20.09.2016

Rampion Jacket Installation

05.09.2016

Gulliver Launched

01.09.2016

Bligh Bank Transformer Station Installed

Every Scaldis project faces one challange or another

31.08.2016

Phase 3 of the Flinterstar removal

The removal of Flinterstar's aft is successfully completed.

01.07.2016

Flinterstar's Bow successfully lifted from sea after 10 weeks of intensive preparation

05.05.2016

Nordsee One Jacket Installed

Rambiz installed jacket of Nordsee One substation

22.04.2016

Agreement on Wreck Removal MV Flinterstar off Belgian Coast

BARENDRECHT (NL) - ZEEBRUGGE (BE)
Flinterstar III BV, the owner of the Dutch freighter MV FLINTERSTAR, has entered into a contract with a consortium of Belgian marine contractors to remove the wreck of the vessel which sank in the North Sea off the coast of Zeebrugge following a collision last October. The consortium will be headed by SCALDIS, a joint company of DEME, Jan De Nul and Herbosch-Kiere.

19.04.2016

Scaldis reveals official calling name for their unique DP II Heavy Lift Vessel

Scaldis and its shareholders are very proud to announce that the vessel will sail under the name Gulliver.

11.04.2016

HLV Rambiz to lift Stinger Transition Frame (STF) at Flushing from the barge Bumblebee to the quay

28.02.2016

Construction milestone reached for the new build DP II heavy lift vessel

The keel laying ceremony of the new build DP II heavy lift vessel took place on Saturday 27 February 2016 at the Hong Qiang shipyard and was attended by a delegation of Scaldis management and shareholders. The ceremony celebrated the latest construction milestone : to date steel sections weighing over 500 tons have been laid and erected in the hull assembly area.